Word: nicholases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For Clement Moore (in his famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's house-hunting was over: Nicholas Murray Butler, president emeritus of Columbia University, decided to let his successor use the official president's residence, which Columbia had given 85-year-old Dr. Butler for the rest of his days. (Dr. Butler has another place...
Divorced. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, ex-boy prodigy of the violin, a top adult virtuoso; by Nola Ruby Nicholas Menuhin, 28, daughter of an Australian headache-pill manufacturer; after nine years, two children; in Carson City, Nev.
The Elizabethan age, big with luxury, vanity, conquest and high emprise, also produced the English miniature. It was the Century of the Uncommon Man. The art of the miniaturist, wrote Miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard in 1600, is "a thing apart from all other painting or drawing, and tendeth not to common...
Nicholas Hilliard was the first, and greatest, of English miniaturists. Last week, 400 years after his birth, 101 Hilliard miniatures were on display in London's Victoria and Albert Museum.