Word: 18th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Allen, who had successfully hitched himself to the coattails of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, getting his grip on Ike's? Had he brought Ike a significant message from Truman? Had the next President of the U.S. been named on the Augusta National Golf Club's 18th green? Or-and this is what set the dopesters' teeth on edge-was it possible that Ike and Georgie had gone to Augusta just to play golf...
Last week, for perhaps the first time in history, Manhattan gallerygoers saw a private collection of Chinese masters they could be sure of. The paintings dated from the 8th to the 18th Centuries; each of them had been traced all the way back and authenticated by one of the few living connoisseurs who really can: a Shanghai collector named Chang...
...born the 13th and last son of a poor Staffordshire potter; Josiah Wedgwood died the father of an industry. What Henry Ford did for cars in the 20th Century, Wedgwood had done for plates, pots, cups & saucers in the 18th. Judging by the show of his vast works (and those of his descendants) which opened in the Brooklyn Museum last week, Wedgwood had taste as well as technique...
...more difficult to follow, they would have a hard time improving on the 700-year-old game of "court tennis." In fact, there have been some noble tries. There have been court tennis players who used champagne bottles for bats, or played the game while riding ponies. And an 18th Century Frenchman went so far as to serve while crouched in a barrel, returning to the barrel between strokes. None of these refinements lasted: the game was baffling enough...
...first six years after acquiring the Raeburn, Huntington spent $6,000,000. By his death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...