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...sumptuous color for which the great Venetian is famed, Education of Cupid shows a plump, blonde Venus handing a sheaf of arrows to a Cupid with blue-tipped wings, while a half-nude handmaiden looks on admiringly and two muscular brown satyrs hoist high in the air baskets of doves and fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cupid for Chicago | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...rage, had a speech in his system for which he needed an audience. Democrat Ely had a hope in his bosom that the meeting might openly come out for Landon. The emotional needs of the others were vague but earnest, so earnest that, although in the sumptuous suite where they were assembled a private bar had been provided, they were too busy to patronize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unhappy Has-Beens | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

After that, cheering never stopped as Haile Selassie, his children and his crates were whisked by limousine under guard of Scotland Yard detectives to a sumptuous, cream-yellow house facing Hyde Park at No. 5 Princes Gate, the home of the U. S. Ambassador being nearby at No. 14. Alighting, His Majesty was met with shouts of "Say any old thing, Haile Selassie! Hurrah for the Emperor! Good Old Haile Selassie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Selassie & Fiuggi | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...world's best. This week No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale partly because Sir Samuel has been intending to build a house better suited to display his treasures, but chiefly because as First Lord he will reside with Lady Maud at Admiralty House, Whitehall in the sumptuous residence which the aristocratic British Navy provides for its chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man Who Was Right | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

William G. Morse '99, purchasing agent, is planning various sumptuous lighting arrangements in the vicinity of the Houses for the night of Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS DAY COMMITTEE CONTACTS ALL SENIORS | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

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