Word: threads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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wedding gown of chiffon moireÚ, with silver thread and pearls, is being made in the famous Nottingham factories. The train will be made of tulle and beautiful old lace, lent me by Queen Mary...
...evening comes much too soon. They are deep in point 2, or they are on the trail of the reasons for point 3. They are certainly not ready for bed at ten o'clock. But when the lights go out in Widener they must either break the thread of their work until next day, wasting a valuable hour or two of the evening, or collect their books and chattels, sign slips for as many volumes as possible, and carry them to their rooms, where peace and quiet and convenient surroundings are not likely to be found. Roommates and friends...
Professor Kittredge dwelt first on the significance of the weird sisters and said, "It has often been observed that the word 'blood' runs through this tragedy like a scarlet thread. It is no less certain that fate and metaphysical powers are prominent in every line of the play. Thus the tragedy of Macbeth is unescapably fatalistic, although the author does not render the bloody deeds of his hero inexcusable...
...often at Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist, and played like...
...affairs, and subject to the prejudices of the times. But it is as showing a remarkable and possibly great personality at first hand that a volume of collected letters such as those of Franklin K. Lane has its chief interest and its chief reason for being. The one thread running through the whole and giving the volume body is the personality of the man who wrote the letters...