Word: boise
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loyally therefore, critics suppressed the usual clichés about the backwardness, the stodginess of all Academies. And with considerable justice. To the quick glance of a gallerygoer the walls looked about the same, but Norway-born Artist Lie had done about as much as one person in one season...
The girls were Elizabeth and Jane du Bois, only children of Coert du Bois, U. S. Consul General at Naples. Jane, 20, dominated her 23-year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who...
Next day the Sisters du Bois left for London, where they took a room at the Ritz. Hotel employes noticed they were continually weeping. They attended a service for the dead flyers at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Next morning they motored down to Stapleford. . . .
Upminister workmen saw the Sisters du Bois leap from Pilot Kirton's plane. Hands clasped together, they fell 4,000 ft., landed in a cabbage patch. Jane's wristwatch, its crystal unbroken, still ticked near her corpse.
Zurich, Switzerland, March 1--Apparently inspired by the tragic death of the Du Bois sisters, Charles Grieder and his fiancee, Antoinette Joery, today leaped to death from an airplane near Basle.