Word: shades
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Neutral lavendar was the tint of table chrysanthemums for the season's second state dinner-an appropriate shade, since the guests were the diplomatic corps. The new gold plate service was used, embossed with the U. S. seal and coat of arms. Two days earlier, the President and Mrs. Coolidge had dined with Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg at their home on 19th Street. There they chatted at table with General Pershing, Princess Cantacuzene, other agreeable and prominent people, including Lawyer and Mrs. Silas Hardy Strawn, of Chicago...
...flame of genius. He was not one of those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade, the harmony and rhythm of line which raises his work so high among his contemporaries...
Compromise. The German Cabinet soon gave Dr. Stresemann carte blanche. The French Cabinet met in three long secret sessions and finally transmitted to M. Briand "new instructions." The shade of Alfred Nobel must have rejoiced as his three Peace prize winners signed a convention adjusting their differences on a hotel table. With them, to bind the bargain, signed Signer Scialoja of Italy, Foreign Minister Vandervelde of Belgium and dapper Viscount Ishii of Japan, League Council members all. The role of Emile Vandervelde, veteran Socialist Belgian Foreign Minister, in last week's negotiations was candidly revealed by Dr. Stresemann who said...
ISRAFEL: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF EDGAR ALLAN POE - Hervey Allen - Doran (2 vols. $10). All the light, all the shade, of Edgar Allan...
...Washington nine men in solemn black robes met after a two weeks' recess to hand down weighty decisions; then, as they adjourned in honor of once fiery Joseph McKenna, their robes seemed to take on an even blacker shade. They were his honorary pallbearers. All of them, save the youngest (Harlan Fiske Stone), had sat on the Supreme Court bench with Justice McKenna. Impetuous, be had often vexed them. Irish, he had made them love...