Word: tite
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...migrated naturally to England, tilting his easel outside a Cotswold cottage wherein Henry James and Edmund Gos.se were busy writing. He painted Stevenson pacing thoughtfully in velveteen jacket. He took Whistler's egg-colored studio in Tite Street, London, and deprecated with amused humility a chorus of praise that arose, swelled and continued without interruption during his life...
...amiably talked about painting, discussed the work of Alfred E. Orr, young U.S. painter, whom he financed. "Orr looks like a greater man than Rembrandt," Sir Charles remarked; said that he had rented for the painter the studio of the late John Singer Sargent, No. 31 Tite Street, Chelsea; told how Mr. Orr derived the inspiration for his greatest masterpiece, a painting of "the typical British war mother grieving for her lost sons...
...Petite Chaumiere, or The Little Thatched Cottage-since its name is international-was the scene of a notable saturnalia last week. La P'tite Chaumiere is indeed always well to the fore among the obscure but fashionable Parisian resorts of sophisticates who seek the dark, steep and tortuous streets ascending Montmartre when the hour is really too advanced for one to be seen elsewhere. As a novelty, La Petite Chaumiere combined the twin appeals of Sadism and Inversion, produced a "ballet" re-enacting the celebrated events of the recent Mesmin Case at Bombon. (TIME...
Bombon a Paris. The scene presented to the opulent clientele of La P'tite Chaumiere was, naturally, the vestry of the church of Mme. Mesmin's recent victim, the Abbe des Noyers at Bombon. The "Abbe," played by a young and sufficiently personable actress, was duly "surprised" and seized by the "ballet," meticulously disrobed and bound; eventually flogged until the police were attracted by the howls of the "Abbe...
...Quilts and Feathers". The last suggestion that he makes is the only one with which the author of "How not to Catch Cold", a recent article in the Literary Digest, agrees-to the effect that "he should be much in the open Air, and as little as possible by tite Fire, even in Winter...