Word: borings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Friends for many years, Gaston Doumergue married a widow, one Mme. Jeanne Graves, in 1931, twelve days before the end of his term as President of France. An attractive daughter who bore the name of Marthe Graves was a student in the Sorbonne where she met and married Enzo de Bonze, excitable young son of an Italian general, who had fled Italy at the coming of Benito Mussolini. The de Bonzes had three children, were divorced in 1930. Recently Enzo de Bonze sought a reconciliation with his wife. Calling on her on Friday the Thirteenth, he shot himself right before...
...married Josefa Bayeu, sister of an influential painter, who unobtrusively bore him 20 children (only one of whom reached maturity) and who as unobtrusively died when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries. Instead of classical subjects, Goya chose contemporary incidents, then an innovation. The tapestries established his fame, his social position. Goya said he had only three masters: "Rembrandt, Velasquez and Nature." Be cause his work only superficially resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere...
...both shows but most were in the Independents, who also showed a picture by one Charles Goeller entitled Reconciliation, showing Diego Rivera and John Davison Rockefeller Sr. clasping hands in such a manner that each was thumbing his nose (see cut). A design for a new Rockefeller dime bore the motto "Oily to bed and oily to rise. . . ." The Salons of America's Poet's Dream by Columba Krebs was a woman with a raven for hair, cherries for lips, shells for ears, a lily for a hand, a swan's neck. A crucifixion scene...
...Time one leader bore away...
...Halifax went the Cunarder Scythia last week for Liverpool and the Continent. In its hold was a heavy Excelsior limousine whose radiator cap bore the letter A circled by a crown. It was bound for Brussels to take its place in a museum beside other personal relics of the late great Albert of the Belgians...