Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Adolphe Schloss got rich in the export business in Paris, he started buying Dutch and Flemish old masters. By the time he died in 1910 he had one of the world's largest and finest private collections of them. They hung in the gallery of his mansion on the Avenue Henri Martin until the outbreak of World War II, when they were stuffed into crates and spirited away to the chateau of a friend at Tulle, in the south of France...
...sunlight of the presidential rose garden; President Truman pinned a second Oak Leaf Cluster on the riband of General Clay's Distinguished Service Medal and read a praise-packed citation he had written himself. "General Clay," intoned the President, ". . . proved himself not only a soldier in the finest tradition . . . not only an administrator of rare skill, but a statesman of the highest order...
...great loss to the art world, when Gump's stock was burned out in the 1906 earthquake. "A.L." decided that Western art wasn't everything: he sent buyers to Japan and China to collect Oriental art. Gump's gradually built up one of the finest collections of rugs, porcelains, silks, bronzes and jades that Western eyes had ever seen, and A.L., who was all but blind, learned to judge it all expertly by touch...
British exhibitors shrewdly let the critics see both versions. Last week the censored version opened at London's Odeon and broke all attendance records. From the critics it drew more compliments than quibbles. Sample from the Daily Express: ". . . The finest thing Hollywood has ever done . . . When the end came . . . I was crying." But The Snake Pit's finest tribute came in a censor-dictated line in the British foreword: "Remember-all the characters you see on the screen are played by actors and actresses...
...have held up to public ridicule . . . one of the finest and most gentlemanly officers with whom it has ever been my pleasure to be associated...