Word: fanciest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope that Mrs. Erickson might leave the treasure to them, says Director Ric Brown of Los Angeles' County Museum, "museum directors all over the world have been doing the fanciest snake dances about this picture." But, following the pattern of her husband's will, Mrs. Erickson divided her estate into 90 parts, and that meant that almost all the paintings had to be sold. For four months, Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries and London's Sotheby's and Christie's have been bidding for the job. Last week it went to Parke-Bernet, whose...
...Gift wrappings worth some $150 million will be bought to sheathe Christmas presents this year. Never has the U.S. family (which last Yuletide spent an average $3.17 on wrappings) had a wider choice in tissue and bows, from the plainest papers at 25 tissue sheets for 25? to the fanciest at $1 a sheet. All this spending for wrapping will provide a fine Christmas present for Chicago Printed String Co. With a multicolored array of 185 different kinds of paper and some 3,000 varieties and sizes of ribbon, it claims to be the biggest in the fast-growing industry...
Spain's aging Generalissimo Franco dressed up recently in his fanciest uniform and medals to pay a visit to his home region of Galicia on the occasion of the annual feast in La Coruña to the Virgin of the Rosary. La Coruña's clergy had always treated Franco as a favorite son and made much of him; this time Franco sat in the church, unmentioned by the officiating cardinal archbishop. It was an obvious and obviously calculated slight...
...with U.S. Air Force and Navy aircraft ready to take off for Antarctica. Some 600 officers and men, headed by Rear Admiral David Tyree, were waiting to make the 2,200-mile hop to the null main Antarctic base at McMurdo Sound. This is Operation Deepfreeze '61-the fanciest assault ever mounted against-the forbidding, frozen land on the earth's underside. Including ship and aircraft crews, its staff will total...
...musical memoir as lively as the comic strips the Little Flower used to read over the radio. West Side Story. Romeo and Juliet in the asphalt jungle. In this bustling revival, the dances by Director-Choreographer Jerome Robbins and the score by Leonard Bernstein still add up to the fanciest rumble seen around the sidewalks of New York...