Word: lents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fenway, stands as a monument to the success of the acquisitive instinct in art collecting. According to the rather peculiar terms of Mrs. Gardner's will, the collection can not be added to or rearranged, nor can any work be removed, nor is anything permitted to be lent to other museums...
...just through social work or extracurricular activities that undergraduates penetrate the Cambridge community, however. Part-time jobs bring many students into the community and, in one recent instance, lent one Harvard student a certain fame...
...British intelligence in World War II, when it prevailed upon a smalltime character actor to impersonate Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery during a "secret tour" of North Africa-to convince the Germans that an Allied invasion would be launched from that area. Danny starts out as a U.S. private lent to the British army "to show them how to open Spam." Being on a fat-free, salt-free, low-calorie, highprotein, low-cholesterol diet, Danny skips meals, and passes the time impersonating "Satchmo," Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Intelligence catches his act, notes a resemblance to General Lawrence MacKenzie-Smith (played...
...pages, and anyone who tries to accomplish it in so short a space lies open to the disparaging epithets of popularizer and over-simplifier. Admittedly, Mrs. Dean's biographical sketches, averaging less than ten pages in length, are scarcely comprehensive; most of the statesmen she chooses to treat have lent themselves or will soon lend themselves profitably to full-length biography. But the sketches are sufficient for Mrs. Dean's purpose, and she is a popularizer only in that her book is extremely readable. Builders of Emerging Nations is a solid and useful study. Mrs. Dean, editor of the Foreign...
Even coincidence smiled on the collection. Three paintings never before seen in the U.S. share and contribute to the gentle aura that pervades the whole. Cubist Georges Braque calmly analyzes an end table littered with fruit and knick-knacks in a brown and green oil lent by Art Patron Mrs. Louise Smith. Industrial ist Alex Lewyt lent Pierre Bonnard's landscape of a country byway. Former Ambassador John Hay Whitney contributed Vuillard's rosy-hued canvas of a young woman relaxing at her embroidery...