Word: cloudswept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative. Stubbornly refusing to paint pictures solely that they might sell, ana thereby condemn the creators to continue painting in the same mood, they went to Cornwall. On this stormy, cloudswept coast they discovered color, gaiety. Ten years passed and galleries began to buy their pictures. They won scholarships, medals, salon prizes. They are now represented in famed museums, chiefly English, all over the world. They live in St. John's Wood, London, surrounded by tubes of color, squares of canvas. Harold Knight...
Almost two years have passed (TiME, May 12, 1923, et seq.) since a horde of Chinese bandits rushed down the steep, cloudswept sides of the mountain Pao-tzu-ku, derailed the Peking-Shanghai express near Lincheng, carried off 24 foreigners and nearly 300 Chinese into their impregnable lair, there to hold them for ransom while the representatives of the Occidental powers worried and fumed and sent stern reminders daily to the equally worried and more impotent Chinese Government...
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