Word: windowful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...drawing, good color and good painting." In 1881-82 the picture was shown in Philadelphia and New York. Nobody thought enough of it to bid the $1,000 Jimmy Whistler was asking. In 1889 Georges Clemenceau, already a figure in French politics, saw it in a dealer's window in Paris and pulled wires to have it bought for the Luxembourg. Two years later the French Government got it for 2,000 francs ($400). In 1926 it was promoted to the Louvre to take its place with Venus de Milo and Mona Lisa as one of that vast repository...
...President & Mrs. Hoover walked out through a French window to the terrace. "All I can do is thank you for this demonstration of fine loyalty," he said, and again there were tears in his eyes. "A very great man has been defeated," explained Everett Sanders, the political hack who, as chairman of the Republican National Committee, was beaten too. "The millions of votes that have been cast for him constitute not only a marvelous tribute to him but approval of his policies. . . . "Millions have hoped that a political change would better their economic condition. This vote has outnumbered the votes...
...film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are open wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing...
...film, there is an exquisite prologue; and to sketch this prologue is to sum up the spirit that runs through "Zwei Herzen." It is a summer's day in Vienna, and the year is 1830. In Franz Schubert's music room, all casements are open wide. Window-boxes overflow with flowers, and in the crooked street without, sunshine dapples the cobblestones. Schubert, at his harpsichord, looks up from his music, sees the world through the window, and finds it good. His fingers stray over yellow keys; they frame the melody of a little dance. Too gay a thing...
Last week the Abbey Theatre Players, who began their second U. S. tour since 1914 in Manhattan fortnight ago (TIME, Oct. 31), had an important little play called The Words Upon The Window Pane to introduce to the U. S. Scene is in a spiritualist seance where a sleazy medium calls upon her control, "Little Lulu," to bring tidings from the beyond for her customers. Suddenly there is a babble of tongues in the medium's mouth. The spirit of Jonathan Swift, no less, is deranging communication between Ireland and the astral shores. All the customers save a young...