Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...avail myself of the privilege but writing tables are dishearteningly scarce and the knee is a shaky substitute. Now, however, I have a very substantial mahogany table (that must date back as far as the last of the Napoleons) a rather massive French lamp, and a most comfortable armchair. All that is lacking is the ability to write of conditions here in the way I should like...
...more in their development, but the question of coaching can only be judged adequately when the coach is given a reasonable amount of material to work with. The chief fault lies, as usual, with public opinion, which should, and must in the future, make life as unpleasant for the armchair-athlete as it is today for the able-bodied "slacker" in Europe...
Next to this picture hangs the Saint Bartholomew of Rembrandt, signed and dated 1657. It is a splendidly rich piece of Rembrandt coloring and represents a thoughtful man seated in an armchair, gazing in a pensive and almost melancholy manner into the distance. The history of this superb painting can be traced back without interruption to the time of the famous Empress Catharine of Russia. This Bartholomew picture was known for a time in Russia as the "Troubetzkoy Rembrandt...