Word: bonheur
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Prenez le bonheur quand il passe-Alphand's delivery of such sentiments makes her worth $750 a week to the Blue Angel's Jacoby...
...stretch run that looked like Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, & floppy-eared chestnut pulled farther & farther in front. It was Mrs. Payne Whitney's The Rhymer, a four-year-old who-despite the fact that he was ridden by Eddie Arcaro, smartest jockey in the business-had been listed among "the field" in the pari-mutuel betting.-At the finish line The Rhymer was a head in front of Best Seller, a 58-to-1 shot. Third was Olympus, another "field horse...
...musicians have studied under first-rate Frenchmen each summer since; in off hours could relax in the Forest of Fontainebleau's shady green aisles, feed ring-snouted carp in the pond by the palace, down drinks and French pastry at sidewalk cafes and poke mild fun at Rosa Bonheur's bull on its pedestal in the village square...
Only thing Nebraska had ever seen to rival Mrs. Joslyn's gift was a prairie sunset. But the Memorial's art had nearly all been bought in that happy era when money was good and taste was bad. Typical of its contents: a large, lush Bouguereau, Bonheur's Cattle and Landscape, a collection of Egyptian antiquities. Little of the $1,700,000 endowment Mrs. Joslyn gave it was spent on accessions...
...young auctioneer named Thomas E. Kirby and partners founded the American Art Association in 1883, were soon holding sales that ran into the millions. Auctioneer Kirby sold such famous Victorian paintings as Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair, which Commodore Vanderbilt bought and gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 1922, with borrowed money, Kirby put up the Madison Avenue building. Next year he sold the American Art Association to rich, eccentric Cortlandt Field Bishop for $500,000 and retired, having auctioned $60,000,000 worth of art in 40 years. Founder Kirby died a year later...