Word: embellishments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were no pauses in the evening's bidding; the auctioneer did not embellish his tally with encouragements, most of the bidders knew just how much they were willing to pay and lost no time in getting to their limits. The sale started, at quarter to nine, with a little landscape by Frits Thaulow; at quarter past ten, after several fortunes and 39 pictures had changed hands, the last canvas was carried off the stage. A good Reynolds, one of the few that have the artist's signature, sold, in less than two minutes...
...Johnston regime has been attended by something besides the anti-Hammonds talk. Governor Johnston has been accused of being a Rosicrucian.* He has been suspected of trafficking in the supernal with Mrs. Hammonds' uncle, one James R. Armstrong, who is said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain time "because the signs of the Zodiac will be favorable then." Was he joking? Or was he serious...
...contentment which his art demanded. Sonn of the neighbors called him Queer Manievich; wiser friends spoke of him as Shrewd Manievich. Last week some of his two-sided paintings were exhibited at the Durand-Ruel galleries in Manhattan. Buyers, undecided which side of a canvas they liked best, could embellish their homes with painting No. 1 on weekdays, with painting No. 2 on Sundays, holidays...
...artist is not one woman ... she is everywoman ..... she is woman. Her role is to console, to embellish life, to contribute to the intellectual and artistic development of humanity. I played to all classes of people in New York, and they were all appreciative. Americans have an understanding...
...expert and publicist Henry K. Norton; two statesmen who may be termed the "lions" of the present session: Dr. Albert E. Zimmermann, successful fiscal rehabilitator of Austria-Hungary (TIME, July 12, INTERNATIONAL), and onetime Greek Foreign Minister Nicholas Politis-and many another. With addresses by the "lions" reserved to embellish a climax other delegates pronounced pithful remarks last week, which reverberated educationally. Paul Harvey revealed officially for the first time that the International Chamber of Commerce evolved, with collaboration of experts of the Dawes Plan committee, a scheme of revision for the entire Plan designed to facilitate reparations transfers. Just...