Word: remington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Between New York and Washington; Golos died in 1943, and Bentley soon after left the party, calling Communism "a kind of missionary complex, upside down," provided the FBI with information that implicated Assistant Secretary of Treasury Harry Dexter White (he was never indicted) and helped convict WPB Aide William Remington of perjury and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg of stealing atomic secrets...
...there are still a few Americans who would not know a waddy (cowboy) from his gelding-smacker (saddle), this volume ranges over the life of the West, devoting whole chapters to its outlaws, reptiles, guns, big game, songs and legends. The text is informative, the paintings and drawings, by Remington, Bierstadt, Russell and others, are splendidly direct and realistic, and much of what a reader might have taken for shaggy Western lore turns out surprisingly to be unvarnished truth...
...particularly surprised-except that it had lasted this long. After three years of marriage and two sons, Remington Typewriter Heiress Gamble Benedict, 22, filed for divorce in Zurich from the man she had insisted on eloping with: fortune-hunting onetime chauffeur and self-styled economist Andrei Porumbeanu, 38. Grounds: misconduct, as yet unexplained...
There is one phrase in it, however, I would like to correct. Your text reads: ". . . aside from having to display some Remington cowboy art that he loathes...
...have never used the term "loathe" about any work of art. Quite contrary to the implication of your writer, I am very happy that the Museum of Fine Arts boasts such a rich collection of Remington's work which gives pleasure to so many of our visitors...