Word: shade
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers?"The brighter the sun, the blacker the shade...
...rules have proven successful before in driving the low-ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity and time are available...
rose be fair. --Calm, friendly shade --Let me wander (flute obligate...
...entertainment program, which will be out on by members of the Junior League and their guests, shows a wide variety of acts. The first is a tableau representing the legend of the Sleeping Beauty, for which all costumes are done in pastel shade. In contrast to this, further down the program, is a plantation scene in full action, consisting of the singing and dancing of the darkies, and an active demonstration of the Charleston...
Evenings in Russia are long? how better to pass them than by a game of chess in front of the fire? A Paris restaurant, chequered with the light and shade of tablecloths and parquetry, is a background that fittingly salutes a pair of men in dinner-clothes seated on each side of a black and white board; in California patios, in drawing-rooms overlooking the Grand Canal of Venice, in the smoking-car of the Florida Sunbeam, and on the glass verandas of the hotels that front the long sea-promenade at Ostend, the game is played...