Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coolidge also said that the museum will present next month an exhibition of Dutch and Flemish Drawings lent to Fogg by the Belgian government...
Writing of Grant Wood's painting Midnight Ride of Paul Revere in your March 1 issue, you say ". . . it lacks every grace save precision and is as meticulous in execution as a Flemish altarpiece." Perhaps, but no horse . . . ever galloped with his two front legs stretched out in front and his two hind legs extending to the rear...
...building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
...great many persons in the University do not care about the Lampoon's financial status, there is another, more sure fire plan, entailing only the cost of a few cheap umbrellas. Lampoon men could hold meetings not in the Great Hall, but above it, on the distinctive Flemish tiles. There they could laugh, and at the same time learn that a writer's lot is hardship and wet feet...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, already heavily laden with treasures, got some more rich stuffing. In the museum's vast Great Hall, four magnificent 16th century Flemish tapestries, each 14 ft. by 24 ft., went on display last week. They were a gift of the Hearst Foundation, in memory of one of history's most assiduous art collectors, William Randolph Hearst...