Word: bling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Piacenza (in North Italy) in 1691, Pannini went to Rome at 26 to learn figure painting in the style of Salvatore Rosa. After classes, he would stroll out from the Eternal City for long looks at the ruins which ringed it like a crum bling shell. Tumbling, ivied walls in scribed with ancient names and victories, pillars overlooking the wilderness or sprawled broken like dead giants in the grass, and marble steps descending into the sod inspired the "Views" for which Pannini became famous. Perhaps his the spaciousness and sparkle of Canaletto and Guardi, whose pictorial celebrations...
...hold prices with OPA, hoping production would pull the country out of its hole. Congress axed OPA and, despite the President's pleas, was all set to drive a stake through its heart and bury it at a cross roads (see below). Harry Truman's fum bling efforts to control the economy had failed; now the country, nerves on edge, faced the prospects of a free economy...
Cordell Hull, old and ill, raised a trem bling hand to be sworn in as a witness...
Captain Margesson was satisfied. Fum bling in the dark for the door's handle, he soon discovered that there was no inside handle. The Captain heaved his 14 stone against the door. It would not budge. He lit a match and observed that the mirror over the washstand was fogging from his breath. Scared stiff, he grabbed -a razor and forced it between the door and its frame. This admitted a little air, a chink of light. By diligently manipulating the razor Captain Margesson made a big enough hole to keep breathing, then he went to work...