Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the transparencies there was one that stated that "the average age of the Board of Overseers was 95 in the shade...
...rental of $400,000 a year for the first 21 years. A graduated rental scale has been arranged for the second and last periods. These three periods have doubtless been fixed to correspond to Beethoven's famous "three periods," out of respect for the composer's shade, which undoubtedly haunts the hall. The rent for the entire 63 years will amount to the neat little sum of $27,500,000. In addition, the tenant has agreed to pay taxes, insurance and running expenses...
...offices in Boston-colonial offices, exquisitely furnished-he appears, quiet, forceful, softspoken, a country gentleman, perhaps, receiving a caller in his study. I suppose many people think of him as a decided conservative, and of his publication as of the same shade of opinion. Not so. You have only to talk to Bostonians nourished in the elder tradition to find that they actually consider The Atlantic Monthly radical. Liberal, it assuredly is, and tuned to the latest thought; more liberal politically and culturally than it is in regard to literature. Yet it has often published matter of a startlingly controversial...
...motion pictures from one room to the next. His achievement has the honor of priority, since he was sending both radio and wire pictures two years ago. His apparatus employs optical means, impressing the photographs point by point upon a light-sensitive cell. This cell changes the light and shade variations into telephone or radio current waves. His device differs from the Belin and from the Telephone Company machines...
...body of Signora Eleanora Duse, famed Italian tragedienne, was laid in its final resting place under the shade of the cypress trees in the little cemetery at Asola. It was there that the actress wished to be buried...