Word: artful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confession of defeat. Cried the leftrwing Americans for Democratic Action: "A flat betrayal of the Democratic platform." Anti-Truman editorialists leaped to their typewriters to crow, and to praise Harry Truman's new-found wisdom ("The President has at last seen fit to acknowledge that politics is the art of the possible," said the Washington Post...
Starting at the opposite end of the trail, Italy last week arrested a Florentine lawyer along with two minor employees in the government's art export control office, accused them of forging the papers that got Sebastian out of Italy...
...three years after France fell, private art collectors for both Hitler and Goring gnashed about in search of the hidden treasure. Finally somebody tipped the Gestapo, and the collection, except for 49 paintings which the Louvre managed to keep, was carted off to Germany...
Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...
There comes a time in every exam period when the need for relaxation is paramount. Perhaps this explains why the old Roman art of pecunia-iacienda came to the Lowell House courtyard last week...