Word: basement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fate of Van Beuningen's most sensational buy, a Vermeer Last Supper that Belgian Art Expert Paul Coremans in 1947 identified as having been painted by Art Forger Hans van Meegeren (TIME, July 30, 1945 et seq.). The master faker's masterpiece is currently stored in the basement of the museum that Rotterdamers will henceforth know as the Boymans-Van Beuningen Museum...
...store a community institution, fits its prices and products to almost every purse. Boston's Filene's is as much a landmark as the Common or Fenway Park, prides itself on being the world's biggest specialty store with the world's most famed bargain basement. Filene's professional buyers picked up Paris dresses at a song in 1940 just before the Germans marched in, emptied out the seagoing haberdashery aboard the Queen Mary when it was converted to a wartime troopship. Filene's customers got these bargains-plus hip-length hose from...
...Lazarus clan are sprinkled through Federated's top levels.* But "Mr. Fred," as Lazarus is known to the trade, bristles at any mention of nepotism. "Nepotism smacks of favoritism. Everyone in our family has had to earn his position." The young Lazaruses usually start in the basement, work up from stock boys or salesmen, must prove they can sell before moving higher...
Primitive, provincial and expressionist by choice, Hjorth distorts form to achieve more powerful effects, offends many a conservative Swede. His mural for Stockholm's Caroline Hospital showing a coarse peasant Christ surrounded by nude suppliants so shocked the hospital authorities it was consigned to the basement, and only later rescued by the city's Museum of Modern...
Impartial Advice. In Yuba City, Calif., when carpenters discovered a whisky still in the basement of a real estate office run by a couple of church deacons, the deacons denied any knowledge of it, helpfully pointed out that previous tenants were the City-County Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic County Central Committee and the Republican County Central Committee...