Word: somberly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyday there appear on the newsstands new, gay-colored magazines with pictures of pretty young ladies gracing their covers, Daily there arrive also fresh stocks of somber, dignified-looking periodicals with a position and wild-eyed, excited magazines with a Cause...
...somber for all members of the Business School will be held in the Living Room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock tonight. The meeting is under the auspices of the Business School Club...
...crammed awkwardly into chests; abnormally long noses; cramped postures; elongated forms. Many of these characteristics may be traced to the influence of Metzner. Mestrovic's Madonnas are a distinct type, almost a formula. They are a queer, rigid combination of an almost Eastern tradition with Western realism. Somber, stiff figures, a little wistful, a little pathetic, done with long, simple, vigorous lines. Mestrovic's chief claim to consideration is not intellectual. He is ever emotional. He is conspicuously sculptural. His silhouettes are sharp, simplified. His cuts are deep. He makes the spectator constantly conscious of his medium?wood or stone...
...lighthouses-though those are not absent-but a peculiarly graphic and moving analysis of a psychology alien to the landlubber; evolved, apparently, out of a sailor's long silent hours between wave and sky. The tales are like etchings, drawn with bold strokes, tense and stark, against the somber background of the ocean; they are best read with one's feet on the fender, safely removed from these portentous winds and waves...
Then the door to the left opened to admit the representatives of the faculty. Deans, department heads, and professors-emeritus followed in long array, each man in cap and gown, wearing the scarf of colored silk which betokened his degree. To the somber black of frock coats and black gowns was added the flash of scarlet, blue, and orange as this group of distinguished scholars and educators took their seats upon President Eliot's left...