Word: petaled
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Olga not only represents the feminine beauty of our race but the charm of the Brazilian woman. . . . Each petal unfolding over Olga's young crowned head is for us like the stars sparkling in our flag...
...Loveday buccaneered through garish London night life, dipped her black flag to Charles-"formal, formidable, fastidious," to which descriptive f's Loveday later added "fatuous, fulsome," because of his devotion to a silly mother, self-styled "Petal." Bankrupt, Pirate Loveday shipped for foreign parts as partner to a professional dancer. In Budapest he attempted his own interpretation of "keeping company," but Loveday "whooshed"' off to London, on the "wadge" of kronen which a Hungarian tart pulled generously out of her stocking...
...basked then for weeks in the compliments the world paid her upon her daughter. Lest Mrs. Trevelyan's serenity be disturbed by the discovery of unaccountable Balkan visas on Loveday's passport, the girl blithely burns it. Just at the wrong time, however, for Loveday hears of Petal's remarriage, and instinctively recognizes that Charles, released from the bondage of maternal adoration, would yield to his Debonair if only she were at hand. How to get to England? A convenient husband is traveling home alone, with a Victorian man-and-wife passport. Loveday persuades...
...silly and ungainly, it was partly by contrast, because the paintings were neither. They are difficult paintings to write about. When Georgia O'Keeffe paints flowers, she does not paint fifty flowers stuffed into a dish. On most of her canvases there appeared one gigantic bloom, its huge feathery petals furled into some astonishing pattern of color and shade and line. A bee, busy with a paint brush, might so have reproduced the soft, enormous caves in which his pasturage is found. One of the.insects out of Henri Fabre, some thoughtful, sensitive caterpillar who had read Freud, might have...
...exhibited the faces of certain ladies and gentlemen few westerners have looked upon. The deposed Empress of the Manchus looks out under a headdress of cultured, decadent and nameless flowers. Prince Pu, with European hair, has the clear intelligent gaze of a Pekinese. There is Hsuan Tung, a petal-faced youth, the deposed Emperor; others, in stiff silk, noblemen, princes, knights. Mrs. Jacobs, a clever and sophisticated painter, does her work well, suggesting an exotic atmosphere with diminishing ovals, soft colors. She did not always charge her patrons for her work. Said she: "My reluctance profited me shamefully. Soft-footed...