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...more or less well-authenticated Rembrandt oils, the Metropolitan chose only the 16 finest, surrounded them with a comprehensive collection of etchings and drawings. They included the Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, the portrait of Rembrandt's son Titus, the bulbous-nosed Self Portrait showing the artist at 54. The exhibition proved again that Rembrandt was far and away the greatest of those few painters in history who have rivaled writers like Balzac and Dostoevski in their ability to delineate the individual human soul...
...Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...
When noses were counted it was observed that the new Cabinet contained three fewer noses than the old. Conspicuously missing was the slightly bulbous nose of Yosuke Matsuoka, who as Foreign Minister had promoted the Triple Alliance with Germany and Italy and the Neutrality Pact with Russia. It was evident that one object of the Cabinet change was to squeeze out Mr. Matsuoka...
Died. Emil Ganso, 46, slue-footed voluble ex-baker boy who became one of the best young American painters, painting chaste landscapes at Woodstock, N.Y. and bulbous nudes in Manhattan; of a heart attack; in Iowa City, where since September he had been on the art faculty of the University of Iowa...
When Germans were industriously adding branches and roots of eminence to their family trees, bulbous Hermann Göring planted himself a genealogical redwood. He announced that he was directly related to Hohenzollerns, Wittelsbachs, Goethe, Bismarck, Count Zeppelin...