Word: illusionality
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Around the platforms, which were at two levels, stretched on steel framework at an angle producing an optical illusion of startling actuality, was the 402 x 45-ft. oil painting, "La Panthéon de la Guerre" (TIME, May 2), showing last week for the first time outside of Paris...
That Edna St. Vincent Millay does not destroy the illusion which her henchmen and harpweavers have created is small compensation for the fact that Mr. Mencken resembles a well-fed lodge-member. Colonel Lawrence's profile is sufficiently romantic, Ring Lardner's face is tinged with the traditional gloom of...
In the Pantheon de la Guerre in Paris there was an operation a month ago. A pair of silver shears, now glorified as relics, cut down the world's largest painting on canvas-a cyclorama, 400 feet long, at which tourists have stared for eight years. On it is...
CHILDREN OF DIVORCE-Owen JOHNSON-Little, Brown ($2.00). Jean Waddington, with tea-brown hair, a meditative conscience and divorced parents, resolves upon the rock of an unhappy childhood that marriage, unless eternal, is a sin. Forthwith, she arouses a consuming love in Ted Larrabee, another child of divorce. She hesitates...
Sir Harry Lauder, singer, Scot: "Recently at Nashville, Tenn., a Pacific & Atlantic photographer snapped me tipping a Pullman porter. Last week, throughout the U. S. the picture was printed with the caption: 'ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED.' "