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Diana (an enlargement of an early work, cast in colored terra-cotta) is swifter far than Acteon, for all his speed-outstripping dogs. The wind bends her scarf; her bow is drawn; she looks back...
...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, and his portrait of her shows a woman whose face...
...victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies' shoes, 1 pair; dress suit, 1; tuxedo coat, 1; pajamas, 1; Corona typewriter, 1; electric hair cutter, 1; men's arctics, 1 pair; laced rubber boots, 1 pair; men's shoes, 2 pairs; ties, 1; opera glasses, 1; scarf, 1; wool jacket, 1; kodak film packs, 2; pocket knife, 1; pearl pin, 1; pipes, 2; leather bags, 2 (one with letter "M" and one from which letters had been removed); puttees, 1;alarm clocks, 2; cameras...
...challenge was given. They fought at dawn by the river. As Richard Bale lifted his pistol, the rising sun fell in his" eyes and, his own shot missing, he received a mortal wound. The cartel per mitted a second exchange if either 'demanded. Bale, strapped with his scarf to a sapling, shot his enemy dead and died himself in the the arms of his second while his slaves were rowing him, chanting as they rowed, over the dawn-lit river to the lawns of Balisand...
...exists in many varieties. There is the simple ruffianly attack. There is the subtler, less violent and less obvious form of getting away with it. The latter form of yellow journalism is usually practiced by those who go about in a cloak of respectability, wrap themselves up in a scarf of fairness and wear the hat of honest citizenry. Freud coupled the instinct of prudery with the instinct of license. Yellow journalism caters to both groups. The crude form attacks the character of a man without giving his defense, and serves as pimp to the sensation lovers of the community...