Word: posed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...details of the plan, they will provide many possibilities for experimentation. For one thing, the selection of books may be stimulating and varied, but must never be overburdensome in number or recondite in treatment. Again, any examinations will, necessarily, be on a comprehensive plane; they might well pose unusual questions which will stir the creative brain cells rather more than memory. Tangible incentives might take the form of certificates, individual prizes, or House trophies, or a combination of several. In any case it must always be kept in mind that the plan should be as all-inclusive as possible; that...
...since his abdication. The Baldwin Cabinet, as London newspapers printed last week, intervened recently to prevent the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from going to Vienna. On the platform was Edward, as the Princess Royal's train rolled in. Her favorite brother ever since they both had to pose in bothersome robes and coronets as budding regalites (see cut), she greeted him as the English do when they are too overwhelmed with emotion to manage more than a shy triviality. Said Mary to Edward: "Well, you do look fit." The onetime King-Emperor, apparently on the verge of tears...
...most impressive of them was the final scene in the combat between Rustum, the veteran paladin, and Isfandiyar, the youthful hero. In the picture, which is considered a masterpiece of this early Persian style, the human tragedy is conveyed solely by the pose of the two figures...
...epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
...became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon and got it accepted. His wife laughed about "Paul's painting mania" with her friends. When he got their nurse to pose for him in the nude, Mette was a little disconcerted...