Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haute cuisine survive from the days of the great gastronomes. Alexandre Dumas Père sighed: "My books piled one upon another have the stature of a colossus. Who has not read my Three Musketeers? Yet in my heart I desire above all things to die the greatest cook of our time...
Charged with murder there was brought before the Paris Court of Assize last week M. Berthelin, one of the greatest of French chefs. He spoke with verve and passion in his own defense: "This creature Davillard, my dishwasher, my scullion, what did he do that I should stab him in the chest with my carving skewer? Ha! Nom de Dieu! Standing at his filthy sink, he declared that my sauces stink, that they engender colic in delicate stomachs. My sauces! Sacre bleu! The pride of my cuisine. The pride of France. . . . "Mes amis, the sensibilities, the temperament of a great...
...more the statue itself was a fable. Few men alive in the sixth century had ever seen it, fewer still could tell what had become of it. Copies exist, worn faces on coins, busts that show the softening touch of weaker epochs. Last week a new copy, perhaps the greatest of all, was discovered in Cyrene by Professor Giacomo Guildi...
...sculptors of the Periclean Athens, of whom Phidias was the greatest, must all be studied in copies. Roman workers, little more than capable.artisans, copied bronze in marble, marble in bronze; statues in the round were copied in relief; the size was reduced, even the proportions altered. Only two works of Phidias have been surely recognized in copies-the Athena Parthenos and the Olympian Zeus...
...Smithsonian Institution of Washington, greatest of all expedition-senders, has announced many new projects, five being of prime interest...