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Word: crackless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again. In 1927 one George Latreille fell on LeNain's Réunion de Famille in the Louvre with a razor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stabbed at Prayers | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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