Word: venetian
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...wedding day burst fair and warm; Margaret Truman walked out of the 91-year-old house a last time on the arm of her ever-punctual, this time solemn father. A crowd had circled the Truman gate to admire her gown of antique Venetian lace, pale beige in color because "white doesn't become me." Margaret paused to smile at them, then ducked into a limousine for the five-minute, six-block journey to Trinity Church. "She looks beautiful, Mr. Truman," called a voice from the crowd. "Thank you, thank you very much," said the farther of the bride...
...gets its lift from a blast of air blown out through a big hole in its belly. The air comes in through the nose, is compressed and speeded up by a jet engine driving internal propellers. Then part of the air strikes deflectors that look a little like a Venetian blind. Turned downward, the air gives lift that supports the aerodyne. Part of the air, plus gas from the engine, can be shot toward the rear to give horizontal thrust and propel the aerodyne forward...
...world's foremost authority on Italian art, directed much of her purchasing, Mrs. Jack was not the kind of women to let her home be furnished by somebody else. Her trips to Europe were among other things, shopping jaunts. Piece by piece, she planned for a new home, a Venetian palace in Boston; by the time she was ready to break ground, she had filled a warehouse with columns, balustrades, gates, pictures, and the like...
When Mrs. Jack was ready, she picked up the belongings from her fashionable home and began building a new home in the wastelands of the Fenway. She had designed a Venetian palace which would house all her works of art in their proper setting. During construction, Mrs. Jack closely supervised every move of the workmen. The walls of the great courtyard look like Italian pink marble because she herself climbed on the scaffolding to show the workmen just how to achieve that effect with pink and white paint. Her personality pervaded every part of the museum, said Carter, her long...
...rooms off the courtyard, Rembrandts, Titians, Botticellis and Raphaels covered the walls. The rooms were filled with early Italian armchairs, tapestries, Venetian glassware, early Roman statues, and hundreds of other things she had collected over the years. "It seemed as if the Venetian Renaissance had been reincarnated in twentieth-century Boston," Carter says...