Word: constantine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above their barricade the truculent peasants raised a banner. "We Will Kill Every Jew In Transylvania and Buko-vina!" Presently in Bucharest a young anti-Semite forced his way into the Min- istry of Interior, shot acting Minister Constantin Angelescu in the hip, neck, head-perhaps fatally...
...Eggs Alfred de Musset on the menus of some of the more effete speakeasies. The Balzac Galleries rushed into the breach last week with a handsome pink catalog marked: 1830-1930, CENTENARY OF ROMANTICISM, and a memorial exhibition of the water colors and drawings of the late great Constantin Guys...
Born in Holland in 1802 of French parents, Constantin Guys began his career as an illustrator about the time that the fateful Hernani was produced. As Parisian as Baudelaire in his tastes, it was his fate to spend much of his active life in Turkey, Greece, Spain, Algeria, the Crimea, as a staff artist for the Illustrated London News. He died in Paris in 1892, having spent the last seven years of his life in bed with a broken leg. He was intimate with Thackeray, Théophile Gautier, Delacroix, Manet, Baudelaire. Few artists had more affectionate friends...