Word: romneys
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...finding some obscure charm in the lady's dementia, he claimed the bastard as his own, embraced the mad mademoiselle and then, kicking an epigram across the stage, killed the butcher's boy with his sword. The butcher's boy was played with mischievous skill by Romney Brent...
...nothing in official Washington approaches, not even the redecorated White House. His apartment on Massachusetts Avenue is hung, not with an Art Collection, but with pictures of lovely women, unmistakable gentlemen, young girls, old ladies, painted because they were fit subjects for fine art by Vermeer, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Romney, Lawrence, Hals, Rembrandt, and bought by Andrew Mellon because life is a fine art and such things belong to it naturally when you can afford them. Something of the same instinct that acquired the Mellon paintings is also seen in the Mellon motor car, which was specially designed and constructed...
...before. The sitters-Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs. James A. Stillman, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs. W. R. Hearst, and many another such-had in most cases been flattered by their imagists. There was, however, one room which had been made into a fold for old portraits of women, by Reynolds, Romney, Stuart, West et al. The exhibit was notable for the excellent paintings which it contained; also because no art gallery has ever before held an exhibition of the portraits of Women without...
...that kind Miss Janet and her beautiful sister Miss Rosalind, poor and snobbish. And today, being the wedding, was a holiday, for Mrs. Beddoes was going inside, inside St. Margaret's, and not to watch as usual from outside the railings. No, "The Duke and Duchess of Romney request the pleasure of the company of Mrs. Beddoes on the occasion of the marriage of their son Wildherne Francis Poole to Janet, daughter of the late. . . ." Thus Janet was plunged irrevocably into the Victorian tradition, and all to provide comfort and stability for her adored sister. Unfortunately Rosalind...
...They have produced a painter like Mary Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have been...