Word: portale
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Wide they flung the massive portal...
...make shivers run in me. I have seen my Dad scared and my Mom uneasy at the bridge table, but I thought when I got here and passed beneath a gate like that"--he flung a hand at the portal they had just left behind--"I would find peace and confidence. But I see that I too will have to become afraid...
...Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter of such bigwigs as Marshal Foch, Wilson, Coolidge, Hoover; of portal cirrhosis; at New Castle...
...finished Gothic nave but in the crossing, at the intersection of the two transepts. Bishop Manning proposes to give the Romanesque choir and sanctuary Gothic vaults, to match the 124-foot vaults of the nave, and to open the nave so as to provide a vista from portal to altar, a distance, in the bishop's proud words, of "a tenth of a mile...
...Manager, saunters about leisurely arranging and rearranging the few odd pieces of furniture serving as scenery, takes two parts in the play, apologizes for the coarseness of the characters' remarks, makes running comments to fill in the gaps in the action while leaning nonchalantly on one side of the portal of the stage and puffing, away at his pipe, thanks the actors for the episodes they have presented, and counteracts with the dryness of his observations the sweetness and the sentimentality of the play...