Word: sitter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine. The interior was to be lined with leather, the ceiling, of white plush with gold stars. On the radiator would be Father Divine's symbol, a dove. Aware that Hunt designed the throne car and probably planned to pay for it. G-men stood guard over...
Sight Unseen. A seat anywhere along the Coronation Procession route (see map), and there are 23 miles of grandstand seats, schedules the sitter to see the King & Queen bowling along in their golden Coach of State. After leaving Westminster Abbey the King will be wearing the Imperial State Crown. Other members of the Royal Family will be in open landaus or limousines as will foreign Crown Princes, Special Envoys, Ambassadors. Necessarily the Procession is all that the public can possibly be shown, for the Coronation must take place inside the Abbey. About 15,000 subjects of the King have...
...trouble is not with the authors, but is in the self-conscious questioning attitude with which the sitter receives his portrait. Sensitive readers, who did not feel themselves portrayed, and who were thus able to maintain a comparative detachment, were a little saddened by, no mater how much they admired, the unbending Mr. Apley. But as usual the most thorough condemnation came from the condemned. The saddest sentence of all came from the Boston Evening Transcript, in discussing Mr. Marquand upon the occasion of his engagement: "'George Apley' is Mr. Marquand's best book. Mr. Edgett of the Transcript...
...never lost his irritating slowness at work. Flesh tones he mixed a gob at a time with his palette knife, scrupulously held the mixture up to his sitter's face before he put it on canvas. When he painted the three little daughters of George III playing in a garden, he was so slow and demanded so many sittings that the Princesses, their nursemaids, spaniels and a bright green parrot all broke into open revolt. Last week The Three Princesses was off its accustomed hook in Buckingham Palace and on the walls of the Manhattan Museum...
...toward the red end of the spectrum. Such a redshift is observed in the light of a star known to be retreating from Earth, so it was assumed that the distant nebulae were retreating in all directions. On these observations, and on the theoretical expanding universes formulated by de Sitter and Lemaitre before any observations were made, the case for the expanding universe rested...