Word: martinis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...researches of biographers and art students for centuries. With great clamor the Boston Museum paid $100,000 for a Renaissance tomb identified by Italian experts as the work of Mino da Fiesole. The Metropolitan Museum bought an archaic Greek statue. Miss Helen Frick got an angel by "Simone Martini"-the list is endless...
Dossena's master work was undoubtedly the sculpture of Simone Martini. Simone Martini (1284-1344) was a Sienese, a great painter, a friend of Poet Petrarch, but so far as the world knows he never produced any sculpture. To Alceo Dossena this seemed a great loss. Projecting himself into the personality of Simone Martini, he presented the world with a considerable body of Simone Martini sculpture, of such apparent antiquity and so true to the spirit of his paintings that it was accepted without question by dozens of critics. Two Dossena-Martinis were on view last week...
...cinema, Ernst Lubitsch. As a rule, Director Lubitsch likes to run songs through his pictures, to accent moods and italicize bon mots. This time the songs are inaudible but they are somehow implied in the flavor of the picture?like the olive which can be tasted in a good Martini cocktail even when it is not there...
...following holidays, and every day from 3 p. m. until the following 10 a. m. For another thing the Government, firmly believing that mixed drinks are bad for the stomach, has issued stringent regulations providing that, without special permission, only two kinds of mixed drinks may be sold, the Martini Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail. In Italy (though not in Finland) it is against, the law to sell as a "Martini Cocktail" any beverage not containing vermouth made by the Italian firm of Martini & Rossi...
...Martini & Rossi's vermouth advertisement clearly states: "non-alcoholic." What people put into a legal liquid-be it orange juice, ginger ale, milk, water or vermouth -is none of TIME'S business...