Word: finest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bliss, the former Ambassador to Argentina, and his wife spent many years, assembling a collection of Byzantine, and early Medieval art which is one of the finest in America. It includes the two most important Byzantine sculptures in the United States. In 1941, this collection, together with an extensive art library, was given to the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Since that time the Dumbarton Oaks collection has been supervised by the Fogg Art Museum, which has undertaken an ambitious program for synthezing Byzantine art and architecture. The plan has been to make Dumbarton Oaks a "top story...
...particularly the boy, Richard Tyler, who may be remembered as the urchin who boxed with Ingrid Bergman in "The Bells of St. Mary's," and Hart has fashioned for them some very warm and very moving scenes. The last scene between the boy and his mother is perhaps the finest dramatic scene Hart has ever written...
...Boston Museum of Fine Arts, despite its plethora of Copley, Gilbert Stuart, and Boston's favorite John Singer Sargent, is second only to the Metropolitan and the National Gallery among American museums. Its greatest prize is its collection of Chinese art, the largest and finest in the Occident, and its Japanese, Persian, and Indian collections are scarcely less impressive. The museum is also distinguished for Egyptian, Classical, and Gothic works, and for European painting, particularly Italian primitives, Turner and Blake watercolors, and French impressionists...
Fenway Court contains Isabella Stewart Gardner's vast, ill-assorted art collection. Included among much of little or no value, are some of the finest Italian paintings in the country including a Simone Martini polytych, a small Giorgione, and Titian's "Rape of Europa." French and German portraits, Flemish tapestries, and oriental works are also discernible, and delightful, among the litter of Sargents, Sorollas, and Zorns...
Social life was founded on leisure and letters, and on what all agreed was the world's finest rum ($3.75 a gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just...