Word: roses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resplendently clad Peers and heavily robed bishops rose. In the galleries diamonded Peeresses stared, rustled, bowed. Lights blazed and kindled the darting iridescences of a thousand gems. No gem, however, burned more richly than the famous Cullinan Diamond which, as all could see, the Queen-Empress was wearing...
...topmost of three octagonal pedestals, surrounded by an octagonal pavilion with draw curtains, this surmounted by a great golden Phoenix with wings spread. Pavilion and chair rested on a great square pedestal, the whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along its entire Southern side, facing a vast court yard, with the Sun Gate to the left (East) and the Moon Gate to the right (West). Within the hangar, Shishinden, near...
Eventually he gained headway towards the Bay of Biscay. There again a storm bumped him. But he shouldered through it, over-fog-clouded Nantes, over hazy Tours, over Lake Constance. The Hallowe'en moon watched him. And as the sun rose for All Saints' Day he dipped his Graf Zeppelin's nose down towards the howling German crowds and his hangars at Friedrichshafen...
...exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget the beauty of her as Sieglinde sitting still at the table listening half-hypnotized to Siegmund's narrative; the silver radiance of her as Ocatavian bringing in the rose; the iridescent tenderness of her Elsa; the white compassion of her Elizabeth. Critics carp at vocal imperfections, occasional explosive performances, but in the final reckoning they pale like small talk before the fact that operatic puppets are given life, that people who had hitherto small patience with "grand" opera...
...which tell how the other half lives, the other half in this case being the Pooles, a Nieuw Amsterdam-bound old family who are proud of family portraits, prouder still of family history or so much of it as has not been written in the past decade. Consuelo Poole (Rose Hobart) has a suppressed desire for a riveter who pumps bolts into the skeleton of a growing building near the Pooles' Manhattan home. One day, out of a steel-beamed sky, the riveter crashes through the Pooles' conservatory roof. Stunned by the fall, his astonishment is increased...