Word: appren
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...University, she did the sensible thing, and acted since she was a stranger to the academic world - as if she were on some unfamiliar Army post. But at Marnes-la-Coquette, the 14-room French mansion which the Eisen howers occupied when Ike commanded SHAPE, Mamie served a unique appren ticeship for life in the White House...
...Bonnard, Vlaminck, Rouault. Of the lot it was Georges Rouault who became Fifi Vollard's closest friend. Artist Rouault was born in a Paris cel lar during the insurrection of the Com mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault...
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