Word: flushes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contemporary U.S. art slumped far below normal. Old masters sold best. Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks. The flush market was fed by the breaking up of such huge, tax-harried U.S. estates and collections as those of William Randolph Hearst, Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Christian R. Holmes...
...great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell for the center of the stage. Of all this illustrious company of conductors, Weingartner was perhaps the most talented, and it is to Columbia's everlasting credit that they...
Never since the flight of Rudolf Hess had the Nazis' faces looked so red. But not since the flight of Hess had the reason for high Nazi flush been so obscure. Was it anger? Was it embarrassment? Or was it pride in a successful hoax...
Next nightfall the division was south of the Strait. The old destroyers boiled up to 27 knots and the bones in their teeth broke and swept across the flush decks knee-deep in spray and foam...
...Philadelphia Story." Eliot Nugent made a Broadway hit out of "Male Animal." Katherine Hepburn knocked her second home run in a row when she put "Woman of the Year" on celluloid. The combination should have been a sure-fire-blue-ribbon-on-the-nose-double-or-quits royal straight flush. But somehow two and two doesn't seem to make four in the theatre world. It makes a small fraction of one, called "Without Love...