Word: antwerp
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Bought in Antwerp...
After buying the painting from the Tessare family of Antwerp, Belgium, where it had been on exhibition, Mrs. Darlington brought the painting to the United States and placed in on exhibition in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1940 she commissioned a representa- tive of the Horne Galleries of Boston to bring the painting to Fogg for authentication. Apparently without Mrs. Darlington's knowledge, the same agent returned to the Fogg Museum and took the painting to the Horne Galleries
...German baker named Gus Schmall. He went to school for a while, ran off to sea, grew up and began having a chronic dream. In the dream Little Joe -now Big Joe-waved his hairy paw, whereupon the great ports of New York, Boston, Marseilles, San Francisco, Antwerp were paralyzed. All over the world shipping was paralyzed. Then the President of the U.S. called Joe and said: "Joe, you have paralyzed the world by a wave of your hand. What do you want?" Said Joe (in the dream): "More pork chops...
Only last Christmas, the German armies in their last great lunge had bulged through the Allied lines in Belgium, and it looked as if they could not be halted short of Antwerp. Since then Germany had been smashed to pieces, Japan had bowed itself into national nonentity, the atom bomb had been dropped. The bomb that obliterated Hiroshima had blown apart man's conscience and his sense of civilized security. For the first time in history man, who still could not inform with life one submicroscopic particle of matter, found within his grasp the power to destroy creation...
Across the Wastes. He had disembarked at Antwerp, at Brussels had boarded the same plane in which Franklin Roosevelt had flown to other Big Three meetings. Some of the time on the way to Germany, he sat in the co-pilot's seat discussing with Lieut. Colonel Henry Myers the problems of farming and transportation in Europe. He ate a lunch of chicken and buttered carrots...