Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slow Persian craftsmen, who made the rug out of silk threads, wove into it animals, riders, flowers. Horsemen move to and fro, pursuing lions, antelopes, ibexes, boars, hares, foxes, jackals and other beasts; many flowers, some western, some Persian, and some the flowers of no land, riot softly on the ground, or hang from delicate vines. The background is salmon-colored. Around the central field runs a quiet legend. In the middle all js speed: bugles blow there, stallions leap, and the beards of riding Khans shake out like flame along a wind of fruits and blossoms. But the border...
...accord is looked upon as a distinct move in binding the "Big Three" together mere closely and comes at a time when conditions between Harvard and Princeton were said to be near the breaking point...
...Significance. This not only should be but probably will be one of the celebrated novels of the year. The author's real desire to interest, inform, amuse and move her reader is felt and fulfilled without visible effort. There is wit, grace, fine feeling and a style which, while lively, never begs applause. The people are so real that there will be endless discussion of who is actually who: Sculptor St. George is Sculptor Saint-Gaudens, and so on. If the fabrication of fictitious letters and other personalia are remarkable, the character relations are even more so, especially...
...Asia to Peking. In Europe, air travel is so firmly established that no one said, "Dreamer!" at the following prediction of a Frenchman who visited London last week: "Everything - fuel, passengers and crew-will be carried inside enormous wings in machines of the future. Passengers will be able to move freely inside and I see no reason why they should not enjoy the amenities of seagoing passengers of today in the way of promenades, dancing, games and music. To fly from Paris or London to New York will be commonplace." Now this speaker was Louis Blériot...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. will move out of the Pennsylvania Terminal in Manhattan. Already a sweeping advertising campaign is telling travelers about a fleet of "Ritzy" parlor busses with special baggage compartments which will scurry from Pershing Square and the Waldorf Hotel to the B. & O. Terminal in Jersey City...