Word: airiest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Currier Gallery of Art, in Manchester, N.H., is a proud little sister to the nation's great metropolitan museums. Since it cannot approach them in size, it tries to rival them in quality. The public favorite at the gallery is a masterpiece of the airiest sort: Claude Monet's dappled evocation of a vacation on the Seine (opposite...
...nation's history, all drafted by Jefferson: the Declaration of Independence, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Jefferson's three drafts for the Constitution of Virginia. Even in times of enormous stress his free-wheeling mind could shuttle between the gravest matters and his airiest interests. Writing to John Randolph on possible reconciliation with England in August 1775, he reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt...