Word: restorationism
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When the "Wedding Dance" was discovered by Dr. W. R. Valentiner, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1930, it was not in its original state but had been overpainted, probably in the 19th Century, to cover up parts of costumes shocking to Victorians, but common in the 16th...
Ready for Politics. In 1926, Lodge married Emily Sears, daughter of a wealthy Beacon Street physician, and settled down to a newspaper apprenticeship. He covered the Coolidge Commission's "restoration of orderly government" in Nicaragua for the New York Herald Tribune, attended the London Naval Conference, and rounded out...
Maugham is Britain's last playwright with Restoration blood in his veins. It is very cold blood; feeling curdles the comedy of manners. It can tingle at naughtiness, but it treats sex as a springboard rather than a swimming pool. Maugham's Constance Middleton can pretend ignorance of...
At week's end, Shishekly, still worried, decided to make a clean sweep of all remaining potential resistance to his power. The single most respected name in Syrian politics is 85-year-old Hashem Bey Attassi, former Syrian nationalist leader who was unanimously elected president by Parliament in Sept...
Three Main Issues. Asked what the issues will be in the 1952 campaign, Taft was ready: "Well, my feeling is that as far as you can tell at this long distance, there are three main issues. One is the restoration of a program of progress within the principles of liberty...