Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presentation to the University of Wisconsin, generous Alumnus Davies is bringing along with him his latest art purchases from Moscow, 14 extremely rare icons described by the famed Tretyakov Picture Gallery's official experts as "constituting perhaps the most valuable collection of icons now in private hands...
Icons from Tibetan monasteries, priceless additions to the Manchu collection, and a modern fireproof rare-book room are only a few of the recent accessions of the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
Other recent acquisitions are the Peiping Chien Pu, a collection of Oriental writing paper decorated with beautifully colored prints, and the fireproofed rare-book room which now safeguards the precious Buddhist Sutra (Bible...
...artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts-art objects, rare books, an Eleonora Duse autograph. Naive-looking, bespectacled Mamoulian finally fled, dazzled, to restful Capri...
Besides being a "relentless careerist," Mrs. Moody was one of those rare persons in the sports world who never permitted the newspapers to make a fool...