Word: falcon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show of the season was the one displayed at Wildenstein & Co. To celebrate the firm's soth year in the U.S., Wildenstein's borrowed back 62 of the masterpieces the gallery had sold to U.S. museums and collectors. Among them: Titian's heroic Man with the Falcon, Watteau's romantic The Mezzetin and Cezanne's spacious Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffon...
...Falcon-eyed," upright and just, he stalks the pages of Asch's novel in many moods: rapt and docile before God's voice in the burning bush, prophetic and lordly as he pronounces plagues on Egypt, exalted as he receives the Ten Commandments on Mt. Sinai, toweringly wrathful as he descends after 40 days and nights to find the children of Israel cavorting idolatrously before the golden calf. Humbly indomitable in faith, he is most moving when he prays for his wayward and wandering people...
Field remained steadfastly mum. So did two other fund trustees, the bookkeeper and the chairman, Writer Dashiell (The Maltese Falcon) Hammett. At week's end, Judge Ryan brusquely found Field guilty of contempt of court, ordered him to jail for 90 days or until he decided to talk. Judge Ryan also found Writer Hammett contemptuous, gave him six months...
Imperial Sunset. In London, the British Colonial Office finally admitted that the Empire had become 100 square feet smaller in 1949 when volcanic Falcon Island in the Tongas suddenly slipped under...
...There seems to be a surprising amount of ignorance about America. People here seem to think Americans eat nothing but steak and ride in enormous cars. Of course, that's nonsense." Then he went to work to plug his new book, Don Iddon's America (Falcon Press, London; 125, 6d), a collection of his columns which have been carefully edited with the wisdom of hindsight. Some still unedited Iddon items: ¶"The electric chair is working overtime and Sing Sing's Death Row is jammed as detectives round up gun-happy youths hepped up with dope...