Word: biehle
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon monoxide gas) ; in Pueblo, Col. His world-wide glass eye clientele included a Zulu chieftain. Died. Paul Painleve, 69, thrice Premier of France, ten times Cabinet Min ister, once president of the Chamber of Deputies, distinguished scientist; after long...