Word: candlelit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
When Lincoln got off the stagecoach in November 1834, for his first session in the state legislature, Vandalia was 15 years old, still mainly logs and mud. That winter, and the next as well, his principal achievement was to make himself known as a wit in the candlelit House chamber where the legislators drank and argued in the evenings...
Lady Mendl, 91, tireless international smart-setter, tried her own therapy when her doctor ordered her to bed for ten days. In a pink satin bed jacket and diamonds, she presided over several little dinner parties in her candlelit Hollywood bedroom. To small tables, her guests (Hedda Hopper, Clifton Webb, Fanny Brice, et al.) brought picnic baskets. Blooming under the treatment, Lady Mendl was ready this week to hop a boat for Europe...
...candlelit room at the War Ministry a military court of five officers set themselves to the trial of the turbulent duchess. At first, she answered their questions with composure. "Yes," she purred, "I am a monarchist. Yes, I distributed anti-Franco propaganda. Yes, I would do it again if set free...
...began -reading, writing and receiving visitors. At 10 he dresses and goes into his magnificent 40,000-volume library ("It's open to all, even those many who speak ill of me"). Later, there are simple, fastidious luncheons, served on fine Italian embroidered mats; teas, and candlelit dinners. At all these, a rug thrown over his knees (for he is always cold), Il Bibi holds forth in several languages on art or literature or politics. His cutting opinions make their appointed rounds, at other teas and dinners, for days after...