Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long afterward Rembrandt began to paint the young nurse for his only surviving son, Titus. The girl was named Hendrickje Stoffels, had a broad, gracious face, a handsome throat, deep breasts, coarse hips and legs. By her, her employer had two children but he never married her, possibly because his wife's will made him sole executor as long as he did not remarry. Hendrickje could not read or write but she apparently loved Rembrandt. After her first child, she was expelled from her church. Rembrandt's Biblical subjects shifted from such as Samson Menacing His Father...
...Cincinnati Zoo, a six-week schedule assured this year by anonymous donations. As usual, the audience tittered at unexpected animal sounds-a loon calling as Lohengrin arrived on the stage with his papier-mache swan; a lion roaring just as King Henry dropped his chin for a deep bass note...
...kept up with modern literature to the extent of being able to enjoy Louis-Ferdinand Celine's grim Journey to the End of the Night. But the War made him a soldier whose kingdom was occupied by the enemy, and peace left him with an exhausted country, a deep distrust of his subjects, a painful inability to make or keep friends, a royal victim of the post-War melancholy that Author d'Ydewalle calls "world-sickness...
...your critic who reviewed Deep Dark River (TIME, July 1) my hearty thanks. It was an inspiriting and heartwarming experience to find the book handled with generosity and a sympathetic understanding both of the story itself and the meaning of the story. You pointed out the very things I had hoped would be noticed. I deeply appreciate your kindness...
Summer Session. When Franklin Roosevelt suggested to Congress that it would be a good idea to tax multimillionaires more stiffly, the necessity promptly arose of extending the session of Congress deep into the summer in order to work out a new tax bill. Every responsible New Deal leader in Congress recognized that prolonging the session to pass a major tax bill was a first-rate risk. A Congress ragged with fatigue, sore from repeated White House whippings, cross at the loss of its vacation, is not an easy Congress to control. Toss it a controversial measure, keep it idling...