Word: bequestioned
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...other two funds, the Stoughton Bequest of 1701, provides aid first to residents of Dorchester, second to residents of Milton, and third to Indians...
Here are Peter Finch and Glenda Jackson, two players of skill and intelligence, lending dignity and a measure of passion to a sort of pocket pageant that could bring out the worst in any actor. Rattigan's script-an adaptation of his play A Bequest to the Nation-is a damp recounting of the infamous romance between Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, a liaison that scandalized Georgian London and threatened, for a time, Britain's naval might...
Honor prevails. "I don't want only half a man, with the better half pining to be out at sea," Lady Hamilton finally decides. Nelson goes to sea and the fleet triumphs, but in the process Nelson is killed. He leaves Lady Hamilton as a "bequest to the nation," so that she may be officially provided for during the rest of her life. An epilogue provides the information that Nelson's dying request was not honored; Lady Hamilton perishes in poverty in Calais. Scenes of her final days would have been a good deal more dramatic than...
...know, my father deeded (by bequest) Black Rock Forest to Harvard completely without strings attached. His respect was for Harvard first, and for science second, in my judgment. Thus for Harvard to sell the Forest, and to use the proceeds for forestry-related research, would be quite in accordance with the spirit of his gift...
...been partly mortgaged for several years in advance against one painting. The result: the Met needed money. Hoving proposed to get it through "deaccessioning" pictures-the barbaric museum jargon for preparing to sell. Last September, the Met revealed that it had deaccessioned a major work from the De Groot bequest, Henri Rousseau's The Tropics, and secretly sold it, along with Vincent Van Gogh's The Olive Pickers, to Marlborough Fine Art galleries. No price was given, but the reliable figure was $1.5 million for the two. This is well below their market value; the Rousseau alone...