Word: etruscans
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...illicit prosperity in the 1920s. When the Valle Trebba was drained by a reclamation project, its muddy bottom proved to be an ancient necropolis. Out of 1,250 tombs came bronze vases and candelabra, gold and silver jewelry and a wealth of beautiful pottery. Part of it was of Etruscan manufacture dating as far back as the 5th century B.C. Much of the rest was Greek of various periods...
...English way of life and condemning the American way as they swig and guzzle through it; people resurrecting the theories of surrealism for the benefit of remote parochial female audiences who did not know it, was dead, not having ever known it had been alive; people talking about Etruscan pots and pans to a bunch of dead pans and wealthy pots in Boston...
...knows. The Louvre itself would only confirm that Painter Braque "has been approached. We are awaiting his proposals." But there is no doubt that the conservative old Louvre wants (and is likely to get) something modern yet rich and restrained enough to match the room's display of Etruscan pottery. Said a friend. "Braque was chosen because he, among all living painters, is most representative of the modern trend in French...
Chief of the conspirators is Anthony Nichols as an elegant, subversive M.P., while Liam Redmond plays a counterespionage commander with an Irish brogue and a taste for Etruscan art. Also on hand: Scotland Yard Supt. Folland (Andre Morell), who saved London from atomic devastation in Seven Days to Noon, here blandly helps rescue all of England from being overthrown by foreign agents...
...Allen '43, concerning a social climber's campaign to ease himself into the New York Harvard Club, which should appeal to members of that organization, if no one else. The rest of the prose works fall really flat, especially a drawn-out parody by Nathaniel Benchley '38 of the Etruscan equivalent of Boston's Watch and Ward Society. Even such greats as F. van Wyck Mason '24 and Robert E. Sherwood '18 are not up to what presumably is their best...