Word: chelseas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...games with such friends as Stein, Berard, Cecil Beaton, Louis Bromfield and the Wellington Koos. Rose spent five years studying Chinese art and poetry in China, hurried home to join the R.A.F. in 1939. Married to British Novelist Dorothy Carrington, he now sticks reasonably close to his Chelsea studio...
They are Grace Anthony of Malden; Joan Capeel of Port Chester, N. Y.; Antonia Handler Chayes of New York City; Mary Davis of Suffolk County, L. I. N. Y.; Alice Gilbert of New York City; Alice Gossard of Wollaston; Muriel Kaplan of Chelsea; Jennifer Seltridge of Red Bank, N. J.; Raya Speigel of New York City; Irene Tinker of Wilmington, Del.; and Naney Woodman of Wellesley...
...than for their measure of esthetic worth, but sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait of M. Fagon (Louis XIV's doctor) neatly blended wit and workmanship. Five hundred such pieces, crammed into three small rooms at the Met, made a sparkling show...
...London's Central Labor College. For the first time, Bevan saw the world beyond the Welsh hills. He loved it. He plunged into a crowd of young people who had read, who could talk. They were fascinated by his exuberance, his brash charm, his wit. Bloomsbury apartments, Chelsea studios and Mayfair drawing rooms reverberated with the laughter which came from him in torrents as he threw back his massive head. But he remained true to Tredegar; he nourished his hatreds...
...picture taken with them and proud to be in their company." In this cozy setup, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn was a big man. He didn't belong to Joe Ryan's union but he ate at Joe's dinners, and his Greenwich Village mob ran the Chelsea District piers. Everybody knew Johnny Dunn was a killer, but nobody could pin it on him. During the war some small brass in the Army even tried to get him out of stir (he was doing time for coercion) because his services as a transportation expert were much in demand...