Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such as is often passed permitting a jury to convict of murder without capital punishment would take care of less serious cases and of cases where there is a shadow of doubt...
...explained his principle in telling how spurious ancient sculpture, currently prevalent (TIME, Dec. 17), may be detected from the real. The ''Great Eye," said he, is that which perceives "the division of light and shadow through an infinite number of planes . . . the secret of all living paintings or sculpture." Sculptor Barnard waved a finger at a twisted motif on his mantel, where graceful shadows tremulously yielded to high lights. Fakers cannot achieve this subtle chiaroscuro, so they roughen their surfaces with sandblasting to simulate...
...week, playing a little golf and enjoying the religiously regular daily schedule that has kept him alive to the age of 89½ years. He made no public statement on his son's battle with Col. Stewart, although his routine was likely to suffer interruption. For there was not a shadow of a doubt that he was heart and soul for the son, upon whom rests all affairs of Rockefeller fortune and philanthropy, and who sinks to his knees every night to ask God that he may be more like his father...
...last week Rafael Merry del Val stepped reluctantly out of the shadow of the retirement in which he has lived since the death of Pope Pius X, his beloved friend. He celebrated the silver jubilee of his elevation, at the hands of Pius X, to the cardinalate. He celebrated a high mass. He attended a banquet in his honor. Then once again he withdrew into the cloister of his memories...
...dismal as that of the office of a humorous magazine where the staff feels that it isn't considered funny enough. Hollow with chagrin, wild with despair, sounded the laughter in the studios of Life as the old staff prepared their swan-song for the presses. A shadow seemed to lie all through that final number, with its reprint of favorite drawings from the spent twelvemonth...