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...King afterward declared the Exhibition open, which declaration was immediately followed by a fanfare of trumpets, a royal salute from artillery, an airplane salute from above and the unfurling of the flag of the Commonwealth...
...This bill now goes before the House of Lords and, even if not passed there, may become law on the Royal Assent's being given...
...roar of Doumergue's cannon, the Spring Salon opened its doors. Because the Exposition made space hard to get, the Salon was small, the work of a high quality. Soberness of execution, startling in such a land, roused as much alarmed comment as the single extravagance of the Royal Academy's exhibition (see below). For the first time since 1913, the exhibition escaped from the influence of the military; hard horizons, khaki browns diminished; dead men in rutted lanes gave place to somnolent picnickers under willow trees. Sculpture, allowed a surprisingly limited space, also displayed more...
...issue of TIME, you refer to "Getting the wind up" as puzzling to the lexicographers. I think 1 can throw some light upon the origin of the term, for it is part of a story that went around, especially in the ranks of the Royal Fusiliers. The story is somewhat as fellows...
Anchored in conservatism, English art lets the tide pull, lets the wind go over; the name of Cezanne is a peril avoided, Modernism the mutter of a storm that never broke. Last week, at the opening of the Royal Academy's exhibition, the quality found with gratification that their Art was still safe, a painted ship upon a painted...