Word: mantels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President's chair is a wicker-backed swiveller. A Presidential nod seats the Job-Seeker in a green leather armchair, edged close to the desk. He begins his earnest plea. . . . The Presidential eye reverts occasionally to an ornate gilt clock under glass upon the mantel. Every tick is treasured. The Job-Seeker rises...
...detected from the real. The ''Great Eye," said he, is that which perceives "the division of light and shadow through an infinite number of planes . . . the secret of all living paintings or sculpture." Sculptor Barnard waved a finger at a twisted motif on his mantel, where graceful shadows tremulously yielded to high lights. Fakers cannot achieve this subtle chiaroscuro, so they roughen their surfaces with sandblasting to simulate...
...glasses were set on the mantel with...
...shrewd" purpose in writing this letter is to offer you $100 for the original of The Voter's Dream. I "view with alarm" the possibility that some other subscriber may offer you more. But if my bid is successful, I promise to hang the original over my mantel and ever thereafter "point with pride." Will TIME sell? If not I shall be "vexed." ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER CHARLES YEATS-BROWN Boston, Mass...
...seeker after romance immediately went to third section to the right of the mantel and began his search on the shelf at the level of his eyes...