Word: sibyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Charles' illustrious forebear, the Emperor Charlemagne, is in the small panel at the upper right, labeled "Karlus." In the large lower right-hand panel, the artist has illustrated a popular medieval legend. He shows Emperor Octavian asking the Tiburtine sibyl whether any king as great as he would ever live; the sibyl replies by showing the Emperor a vision of the Christ Child...
...purest blooms were among the first to appear. The "Head of Christ," for example, outshines the more recent and more sophisticated works on the following page. From the awkward but highly animated and magnificently colored "Saint Martin" through the comparatively slick, elaborate "Pierre de Mortain" to the mannered "Sibyl," the panels show a steady change from simple, abstract design to naturalistic representation...
Thank you so much. Sibyl Mathews, Davison 410 Judy Myers, Davison 406 Vassar College...
Poetic-Looking People. By war's end Claire had won a scholarship at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After school, she took additional lessons in acting from Eileen Thorndike, sister of Dame Sibyl. That veteran teacher said of her: "It is very rarely that you see a born actress, but I think here was a born actress...
When he first read the letter from England last January, James N. Gape, 46, a valve company salesman and father of two children, let out a whoop of joy. His cousin's widow, Mrs. Sibyl Marion Geraldine Gape, had named him heir to an English estate that had been in the family for 500 years; it was worth, even at current rates, a tidy $270,000. There were two fine ancestral houses-Caxton Manor, with 16 rooms, 1,000 acres and three farms in Cambridgeshire; St. Michael's Manor, a 14-room, spacious-lawned house in Hertfordshire that...