Word: frescoes
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...four long days last week Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Cabinet member-in-charge-of-aviation, the U.S. State Department's Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle, and seven other U.S. and British aviation "experts" talked over a pink-blottered mahogany table in the lime green, fresco-ceilinged conference room of London's ancient Gwydyr House (where The Beaver keeps his office as Lord Privy Seal). On the fifth day, The Beaver issued a vague press statement. So plushily vague was the statement that the dignified New York Times' London Bureau Head Raymond Daniell let fly with a parody...
...time so great danger from the recent and unestablished tyranny of Buonaparte as from that of ancient governments." After Waterloo, Hazlitt sank into unkempt despair. While Poet Laureate Southey and Poet Laureate-to-be Wordsworth celebrated Britain's victory with "boiled plum puddings" eaten al fresco by the light of blazing tar barrels, Hazlitt "walked about, unwashed, unshaved, hardly sober by day, and always intoxicated by night...
...Three-chinned Diego Rivera and one-handed José Clemente Orozco, famed Mexican mural painters, have had years of hot personal differences. Last month Rivera walked into Orozco's studio to ask for a few pointers on fresco technique. Last week, in a lecture to an audience which included Orozco, Rivera called him the greatest living artist in their field...
...Noticias Graficas, which headlined: "REVOLUTION SUCCESSFUL." Fanning out in columns, the troops approached the great Plaza de Mayo, and its government buildings. Here there was a 45-minute machine-gun battle with sailors in front of the School for Navy Mechanics and a brisk skirmish to rout Manuel A. Fresco, notorious pro-Axis nationalist, out of a barricaded building...
...Janeiro representative in stating that tweedy Artist Biddie was "the first U.S. artist ever commissioned by a South American country to decorate public buildings." He reported to you - did he not - that Biddie and Helene Sarde.au were together commissioned to decorate the main lobby of the National Library with fresco and bronze bas-reliefs...