Word: costas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought most of the Barnes Impressionist and Surrealist pictures. Today if Dr. Barnes singles out for his collection one unknown painter, that artist's reputation is supposed to be made. Dealers, therefore, treat him with kid gloves. Less scared of him is able, black-haired Belle da Costa Greene, who once closed the doors of her J. P. Morgan Library in Dr. Barnes's face when he wanted to get inside a few minutes after closing time...
...became known that if King George wants to be the only man in the world to own a "British Guiana, 1856, 1¢ magenta," it will cost him no less than $50,000. That is the price now set on the stamp by Philatelist Hind's widow, Mrs. Pascal Costa Scala, who last spring married a monument salesman who called to sell a tombstone for her husband's grave. Mrs. Scala announced last week that she would shortly take her valuable sliver of red paper to London's Royal Philatelic Society where prospective purchasers will have a chance to examine...
...back-country stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
Tall, impetuous Captain Gonzalez flatly denied the Costa Rican's story. He was held at Ellis Island for a day, then released on parole...
...these books were chosen, the catalog prepared and arrangements for the exhibition made, by a dark vivacious woman who has been for over 20 years guardian of the Morgan Treasures-Morgan Librarian Belle da Costa Greene. A prominent figure at book auctions, exhibitions and literary cocktail parties, Librarian Greene is far from inaccessible, but has managed to keep her early history to herself. It is of record, however, that she is of Portuguese-Virginia ancestry, was discovered at Princeton by Mr. Morgan's Cousin Junius when the Morgan Library was building, and has been a fixture in the Morgan...