Word: finest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Netherlands, which has produced some of the world's finest painters, has also produced some of the finest fakers of old masters. *Partly for fun and partly to show the public "what the essence of a work of art is," Amsterdam's experts decided two years ago to stage a "Fake and Genuine" exhibition. The Municipal Museum began collecting as many fake paintings as it could find...
...this, Rose mockingly turned the other cheek. Said he: "Let's make everybody happy. I fully concede that Eleanor is the finest woman since Florence Nightingale; that Wes Bernie is a road-company Joan of Arc; that Louis Nizer, Eleanor's attorney, is president of the Sweet Fellows Club; that Alberta Jones has astigmatism, and it must have been three other people. And finally that Billy Rose has horns and hooves and ought to be ground up for hamburger...
Digging, really deep in the barrel, Democratic platform-makers had also come up with one of the finest special-interest appeals yet, a "babysitting" clause which urged that day care for children of working mothers "should be provided and adequately financed...
Last month, Mrs. Stevenson announced that she would vote Republican, no matter whom the Democrats selected. Said she: "I feel another four years of Democratic Administration would ruin the country." But last week she penned a carefully worded note: "Dear Adlai, Congratulations to the Democratic Party for choosing the finest available Democrat ... All good wishes to you personally." She handed it to a family friend who carried it just four doors up Chicago's Astor Street from her home to the Blair house, where the governor had established his waiting headquarters. After he read the note, a happy Stevenson...
Danes love sculpture and Henning has long been one of their favorites. His statues and statuettes-of girls with geese, girls sitting, undressing, standing, kissing -line Denmark's parks and museums, grace its finest homes. All have Henning's trademark: heavy, flowering curves, and a warm, sleepy sense of relaxation. Two years ago Gerhard Henning, 70 and ill, put aside his chisel. Now that he was back at work again, more relaxed limestone girls will be following Recumbent Girl out of Henning's studio...