Word: sittings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Desiring to advance his reputation, the impulsive Tom took his family to Bath in 1759, then the center of fashionable wealth. Soon his studio became thronged; he raised his prices for half-lengths and had Sterne and Richardson, Quin and Garrick sit for him. Within fifteen years he was in London, prosperous, giving away his sketches and landscapes, dividing the court favor with the American West and that of the city with Reynolds. Among others he painted, sometimes with brushes on sticks six feet long, Sheridan, Burke, Johnson, Franklin, Canning, Lady Montagu, Clive, and Blackstone. Like his more than...
Principal changes were in the last act, which Shaw cut to a third of its length, almost completely rewrote. What made the London audience sit up was not the clatter of the Shavian blank verse but a sly passage whose political patness even the dullest Britisher could...
...today disposed to collaborate with Fascism. As much as any prelate in the Vatican, he has the Holy Father's ear in business and financial affairs. Last May he was the Pope's legate to the coronation of King George VI, but was permitted only to sit outside Westminster Abbey in a special tribune...
...attention, brings many Welsh-Americans across the Atlantic. Last August's eisteddfod took place at Machynlleth where Owain Glyn Dwr (Owen Glendower) became Prince of Wales in 1403. A specially built auditorium, accommodating about 12,000, houses each eisteddfod. Poets, orators, artists and singers compete. Audiences sit tensely, yell their applause. The winning team earns its town a place in history...
...other personal respects M. Debussy was equally Bohemian. A short-legged, thick-set man, seldom in funds, he was forever wandering indolently into Left Bank and Montmartre cafes. There he would sit in a cape and large felt hat, ordering rarebits and English ale, rolling his own cigarets. He preferred the circus to the opera, and disliked listening to music, though he accepted several jobs writing music criticism for Paris publications. He finally succumbed to cancer of the rectum one spring when Big Bertha was dropping shells into Paris...