Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...language of diplomacy, even a declaration of war is written with due observance of the amenities. A Government may be stern and firm but it is always polite. Hence "sternly repressed" had an ugly ring. The justice of Russia's case, if true, is evident; but, as no previous protest had been made, the note seemed unnecessarily blunt. But, insofar as could be judged, Washington took the view that His Britannic Majesty's Government took with reference to the Zinoviev letter (TIME, Dec. 1.)-that the Government of the U. S. cannot consent to "receive" the note addrsseed...
Like Goya, he is an artist close to the bull ring. He loves lean people whom adventure has brightened and blooded, who wear a jewel in their eyes. Gypsies from the hills, Gitano dancers, wild wandering singers, toreadors. These are his friends, But Zuloaga's conception of his art is less dramatic in spirit, less passionate and more pictorial. Much of his work is portraiture but of a type that, allowing for differences of technique, is more like that of Velasquez than of Goya in vividness. The U. S., during the ensuing weeks, will have the opportunity of analyzing...
...Ring-around-a-rosy with the Lad as Rosy...
...have no eye for the noble, no ear for the exquisite? Long have they been so considered by those other operagoers whose eyes remain open. Not so are they regarded by Miss Leginska, English pianist-composer-conductor, whose opera written around Thackeray's story The Rose and the Ring is soon to have its premiere. She holds the theory that these 40-winkers close their eyes, not because they are bored, but because they fear to be disenchanted. They are those idealists who are more often perturbed by what they see than ravished by what they hear; who have...
...name covers a multitude of sins. Knowing this only too well, advocates of the government reorganization bill to be introduced at the December session of Congress, propose to establish a new cabinet post to be called "The Department of Education and Relief". The title has an intellectual and philanthropic ring which will commend it to many persons, but unfortunately it cannot be taken at face value...