Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police and art authorities alike believe that the man or men who accomplished the robbery were misled as to the value of the articles. One spokesman declared that he thought that the whole sum of the pieces, if melted together would not bring over 50 dollars...
When the cases were opened, the alarm rang, but that did not worry the robber or robbers, who took a number of Central American art pieces, including jade vessels and gold ornaments...
...theft was the first of art objects since last year, when two Rembrandt sketches were taken from the walls of the Fogg museum...
...sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove Mr. Lubitsch master of his art...
...five-point program which provided for: 1) $225,000 to pay members' traveling expenses to and from the extra session. 2) $12,000 for salaries of pages. 3) Lending four of the Capitol's gallery of portraits of signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Corcoran Art Gallery for a belated sesquicentennial exhibition. 4) A minor amendment to the Credit Union Act. 5) An extension of the time-limit in which a bridge may be built over the Tennessee River at Sheffield...