Word: fra
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...isolated examples of still-unreturned Napoleonic plunder, such as Fra Angelico's Coronation of the Virgin, the Italian title is clear-cut. But some of the Italian claims are unverifiable or downright shady. It is true that the Mona Lisa once hung in Bonaparte's bedroom at the Tuileries, but that was three centuries after its purchase by Francis I, onetime patron of its painter. Records indicate that the picture remained in France until its theft from the Louvre in 1911 by an Italian. But Fascista was longer on acquisitive patriotism than on logic. Said Fascista...
...limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...