Word: plums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...faultless technique, but most of all by an extraordinary gift for color harmonies of plum reds, jade greens and opulent blues, he endows each small painting with a kind of finality of mood. Pushman admirers are quieted, looking into the silence he frames for them. He has no interest in the prize shows, none in modern painting or painters. He is one of two painters* who in 117 years have refused election to the National Academy...
...greatest remaining private art hoard in the U.S. (valued up to $50,000,000), the Widener collection was a plum fit to water directorial mouths in any museum in the world. No private collection has matched its set of 14 Rembrandts, few its Raphael Madonna (one of the few genuine Raphaels in the U.S.), its magnificent Titians and Van Dycks...
...Severance's art collection (valued at $3,000,000) had arrived and was tucked away in the museum's storerooms pending a big memorial show next fall. By the time it had been catalogued and analyzed, it was evident that the museum had received the biggest plum the art world has caught since the late John G. Johnson's collection fell into the Philadelphia Museum's lap last year (TIME...
Having never been able to exactly clasp Bertie Wooster and Jeeves to my entertainment bosom, I can ALMOST understand why, after spending long years with them, Old Plum might be going for a little Teuton toutin' around Berlin-just for comedy relief...
There was reason to worry: to the White House went many a New Deal Senator, to complain that Henderson refused to consider their patronage demands. The whole Senate stewed-90,000 jobs, and not a plum for them...