Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gaiety of his friends he filled his canvas with flowing light and color, composed contented, decorous figures moving softly, if at all. Three of his best paintings, now at the Metropolitan, show how permanently he thus set down what he saw of Paris life in the 1870s and '80s: Le Bal áBougival, just acquired by" the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (see cut); Au Moulin de la Colette, lent by John Hay Whitney, and Le Déjeuner des Canotiers, from the Phillips Memorial Gallery...
Boston is the centre of Massachusetts' body business. Unclaimed dead paupers and prisoners may be carved, then buried by medical schools. In the '80s, Boston rocked with a scandal about medical "resurrection men" who were supposedly tanning human hides for gloves & slippers...
...Written in the '80s, according to legend, by Undergraduate Edwin K. Buttolph, who took the name Levi from his pious schoolmaster father, Solomon from Father Buttolph's partner in the Cleveland Female Seminary...
Died. Thomas ("Uncle Tom") Kearney, 66, nationally-known betting commissioner who wagered millions for others but not a cent for himself; of pneumonia; in St. Louis. A onetime bartender, he became a bookie in the '80s, opened his notorious "little big store" in St. Louis in 1910, accepted bets on politics, horse-racing, baseball, boxing. The first to make a future book on the Kentucky Derby, he lost $74,000 on the 1924 race, sold everything to pay it off in full. He quoted odds of 25-to-1 that Lindbergh would not fly the Atlantic, could...
...Governor. Joseph Boyd Poindexter is the son of a California pioneer who became a rancher in Montana during the '80s. Son Joseph grew up, took to the law, went into politics, became a State judge. He was Montana's Attorney General in 1917 when Woodrow Wilson made him a Federal judge in Hawaii. He was a quiet man, some said stubborn, firm and courteous on the bench, not given to expansive talk or large social entertainments. Hunting, fishing and contract bridge were his only sports and his only boast concerned fishing: "The big ones never get away from...