Word: lambing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armored train and rolled off with his treasures. Art experts had reason to believe that the Göring loot included Raphael's Madonna of Divine Love, Botticelli's Minerva and Centaur, Titian's Portrait of Lavinia, Van Eyck's altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb...
...Beyond this room is a large studio containing sculpture in progress: a huge classical woman's head and a shepherd, also over lifesize, carrying a lamb. I had barely time to glance at these when Picasso appeared. His large dark eyes, which dominate his face, have a brilliant look of tireless alertness, characteristic of animals rather than...
...characteristic of British thinking, on the whole," says Author Lennon, in her book's most discerning passage, "that each man thinks for himself, yet all reach the same conclusions." But Lewis Carroll, she believes, belongs with that strange, not-quite-sane minority of British child-humorists (Charles Lamb, Charles Kingsley, W. S. Gilbert, James Barrie, Edward Lear) who "have all been to the Never Never Land at the Back of the North Wind, to the Snow Queen's country - to the edge of insanity, [and fetched] a treasure from the borderland for readers who are too busy...
...partner listened dejectedly as their lawyers filed notice of appeal, then went off to jail, where they glumly ate their first prison meal - lamb stew and cabbage salad...
...Wool production is off 20%; mutton and lamb supplies...