Word: chestnut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into hockey, the Crimson hoopsters have a big game way down the green line--at Boston College--against the formerly mighty Eagles. Besides, Chestnut Hill is a lot easier to find than Watson Rink...
...transformed the seedy old building into a series of dining rooms that make the Tavern at once a country place in the city and a city place in the country. The Elm Rooms (so called for the tree that grows through them) are country-pub elegant, paneled in wormy chestnut and hung with copper artifacts and sculptures. The most sumptuous salon, the glass-enclosed Crystal Room, shimmers in pastel pinks, greens and yellows, sun-dappled by day, glimmering by night under Waterford and Baccarat chandeliers. Everything, from the silk-screened tablecloths to the neo-Tiffany lamps, was designed or selected...
...celebrate the Bicentennial, Michael O'Leary, president of Philadelphia Resident Astrologers Inc., decided to have various seers, psychics and stargazers of his acquaintance predict the nation's next 100 years. The prophecies were sealed in a 3½-ft. steel cylinder and buried 25 ft. beneath Chestnut Street...
...them, The Horse Chestnut Tree, went to Sotheby's in 1973 and was sold for ?15,000 ($34,500), a record for Palmers, to a chocolate manufacturer in Hull. Sotheby's still claims it has not been proved a Keating fake...
Gradually, suspicions began to hatch. More than four years ago, Leger Galleries had a visit from a leading Palmer specialist, Sir Karl Parker, who pronounced Sepham Barn a fake. When The Horse Chestnut Tree appeared in Sotheby's, one of its former consultants, David Gould, wrote to Chairman Peter Wilson expressing doubts about it. But the scandal was finally exposed when Geraldine Norman, the London Times's auction-room correspondent, tracked Keating to his lonely cottage in Dedham. "I have so much contempt for the dealers who prostitute the art of genuine painters," Keating announced, "that...