Word: bequestioned
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...large and small. Asked once what he had accomplished at the end of one tiring day, he sighed and replied: "I have just come from eating oysters in front of an open fire with two elderly ladies." Then, brightening, he added: "They will one day make a very handsome bequest...
...Fogg Art Museum has received a $4 million bequest which will almost double its endowment. The museum's previous endowment fund...
Wick noted that the bequest was "far and away the largest" -- in terms of money -- that the museum has ever received. It has, however, been given other sizeable collections, he said. He cited in particular the Winthrop, Wertheim, and Sachs collections...
...money will probably be used for "all the purposes of the museum," Frederick B. Deknatel, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, predicated yesterday. The bequest is "a great windfall," he added...
...will left 300 oils and 19,400 sketches and watercolors to the nation, and his money to a fund for those whom he must have thought of as his likenesses: "male decayed artists living in England." Distant but grasping relatives, however, made off with most of Turner's bequest, which has largely remained out of sight ever since...