Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, every move, every gesture of this auspicious tableau had been argued and arranged between committees of papal and royal experts in etiquette. Chief rub: Papal etiquette demanded that visiting sovereigns should kiss the Pope's toe. Vittorio Emanuele, or Benito Mussolini, found this unbecoming to the dignity of the House of Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which...
...course this tableau was staged for the benefit of the French press and in hopes of making Chancellor Snowden feel like a Shylock. The second move of the French was to join with Belgium, Italy and Japan in presenting to Shylock Snowden a highly complex "final offer" which they claimed met 80% of his demands. What could be fairer...
...sensational denunciation of the Sargent Mural in Widener Library, Walter Pach, noted artist and critic, in his latest work. "Ananias, or the False Artist," has thrust into the limelight a tableau which Harvard undergraduates see daily in their excursions to the University library...
...fairs of Lyons yesterday filled or the medieval fields of the cloth of gold, the growth of the football stadia more adequately supplies for a nation of stockholders. Furs, fine fabrics, fair women, the light and shadow of autumn, the iridescent color minglings of eighty seated thousands form the tableau at New Haven. It appears new and of certain splendor. Yet the first roar that greets the raising of the grate for the two opposing teams dispels the note novelty. Echoed into mind are the arenas of Tiberius, the lists of Provence...
...friend the leafy branch waving from the right, to make it real and make you forget that the same branch was held in the same position in the Caucasus a month ago. The Wainwright Sisters sang in the Duncanesque manner and "Mephistophele" made a pleasant enough operatic tableau. But for a general opinion one is obliged to rely again on the lady behind, who clucked at the nonchalant and almost naked Formosan headhunter, saying, "We'd look like that too, if we didn't get any attention...