Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey Home in the West' were not written about tenements or apartments. . . . They were written about an individual abode, alive with tender associations of childhood, the family life at the fireside, the free out-of-doors...
...picture shows the sweet and grave dignity typical of Bellini, but it is almost certainly the work of one of his pupils, perhaps Niccolo Rondinelli. In the Layard collection of the National Gallery is another version, differing only in that the Madonna's hood is more elaborately embroidered and that there is more of the landscape visible on the left. This panel also is signed on the parapet: Ioannes Bellinvs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle think that Basaiti helped Bellini in the Layard Collection picture. Mr. Perkins believes that these pictures were executed by Rondinelli. He states (1905) that a third version...
...ceiling through grey, opaque eyes; smoking long, thin Turkish cigarettes. Some men called him the Sphynx; he called himself Napoleon. It was shortly after he had announced that the Empire meant peace that France drifted into the Crimean War out of whose dreary twilight the world hears only one sweet note, a Nightingale's. Today at 12, Professor Langer will lecture in Harvard 6 upon how the Crimean War came about...
...Playwright Noel Coward, 32, is reputed currently to enjoy an income of $6,000 per week from his new play Cavalcade in London and various road companies of Private Lives and Bitter Sweet...
Gendarmes tried to hasten matters by arresting nut-munching Spada's sweet heart, swart Antoinette Leca...