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Last October the Nizam of Hyderabad showed his loyalty and opulence by donating an entire Spitfire squadron. Cost: ?100,000. When the Battle of Britain got hot, the Hyderabads were in the thick of it, scored 27 kills, but themselves grew thinner. Last week from the Nizam's loyal subjects arrived another check for ?100,000, to buy 20 Hurricanes. Owner John Wilson McConnell of the Montreal Star last week matched Hyderabad, gave...
...Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases, the gentler, sun-warmed treatment of crucifixions, decapitations and flayings, gave Portugal's school a flavor...
...Prime Minister entered the House, looking even thinner of face than usual. At 3:47 the bulky frame of his First Lord of the Admiralty and longtime political enemy, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, appeared from behind the Speaker's chair. A minute later Mr. Chamberlain rose to explain to a hostile House the British failure in Norway. He had hardly begun when another old enemy made a perfectly timed entrance. The bronzed, white-maned picture of health at 77, David Lloyd George walked slowly along the Opposition's front bench and took his customary seat...
...side is thinner than the other, having been burned in Poland in World...
After John Bunny died in 1915, Flora Finch disappeared. Thinner and older, she reappeared in 1922. At M. G. M., where Flora Finch was a stock player until she died, few of the stars knew...