Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collector of Oils. With his oil wealth, Gulbenkian acquired one of the world's finest private art collections, including the famed September Morn by Paul Chabas, and a palatial house on Paris' Avenue d'Iéna. Yet he lived in such fear of his life that he invariably spent his nights in a Paris hotel, where he felt safer...
...being called vacillating, I hold to my policy of the free hand [in a period] which has . . . taken up a position of reaction against classic rationalism and intellectualism." In place of decisive answers, readers of these essays will find a series of rich, undogmatic examinations that rank with the finest of their...
...secret of Bend Sinister's effect is that it places side by side, heightened by the selectivity of an adept and angry writer, the most moronic abominations of totalitarianism and the finest lights of the secular European mind. The hoaxed and flattered humanity of the mass man is contrasted with the honest and deeply suffering humanity of the individual; but all this is done so lightly that it seems a mocking and superior amusement...
...from behind the eight-ball,* B-B-C has made a big decision : to give up on the present generation of pool players. What could be done about such customers as the New Jersey pool-hall proprietor who promotes lunchtime crap shooting on one of BBC's finest billiard table models, makes $80 a day as his cut before the day's regular billiard business begins? B-B-C is concentrating its crusading efforts on 300,000 Boys' Club members and sending experts like Mosconi, Crane and trick-shot specialist Charlie Peterson to college campuses to demonstrate...
...friend, recalling Stoddard's boyhood in Carbondale, Pa., has called him "one of the finest by-products of the anthracite industry." When gregarious George was a Penn State undergraduate, the only way his mother knew how many visiting fraternity brothers would be down for breakfast during vacations was to count the strange hats on the hall tree...