Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joshua Reynolds' portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. She stands against a marble balustrade, a flight of steps at her feet leading to a formal park. Her dress is cream colored, her coif, built up like a Chestertonian paragraph, is starred with pearls, garnished with plumes of red and grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy." The portrait was painted at the time of her wedding. Seven years later, she sat to Gainsborough...
Frans Hals is represented in this group by his Portrait of a Man-a Cavalier in a rakish hat, white ruff, glancing over his shoulder. Hals reproduced this gentleman's debonair carriage, reproduced also, in delicate red, the warts that marred his countenance...
...Gerald Bullet-Boni Liveright ($2.00). Simmering, sizzling, boiling, gurgling, spitting, the fear of God bubbled like Hell's lava in the head of Bellingham; it drove him out of bed and across the arid plains of Hell under a sky monotonously grey except where the sun, a bloody red, like a huge socket from which the eye had been torn, stared sightlessly at him. In this story, the first and most powerful in the book, Mr. Gerald Bullet adeptly spins out mystification until it becomes mysticism. The Enchanted Moment tells how a certain gnome made a top-hatted...
...Last week came to Cleveland from his Protestant Episcopal diocese of Colorado, Bishop Johnson; from Rhode Island, Bishop Perry; from Louisiana, Bishop Sessums; from Connecticut, Milwaukee, Albany, Virginia, each its Bishop. They clad themselves in robes of black and white. They went to Trinity Cathedral, sat down on a red-carpeted platform slightly lower than a presidential dais occupied by William A. Leonard, the venerable diocesan of Ohio. They were a court of appeal. They proceeded to hear the case of William Montgomery Brown, onetime bishop of Arkansas, now living in retirement in Galion, Ohio, who, some months since...
...huge bloody-red socket from which the eye had been torn. (Page 17,column...