Word: dido
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paper headlined the news: HER SUICIDE: HIS FORTUNE. The suicide was in oils, a painting of a fat and mostly naked Dido, stabbing herself with a sword.* The Oxfordshire lady who owned it figured it was not "a picture anyone would want about the house," sold it to an antique dealer for 50 shillings ($10). The dealer traded it to a salesman for a $56 typewriter, and it was the salesman, a bustling Briton named Henry Eric Wells, who made a small fortune last week from Dido's suicide. He showed the painting to an art expert, discovered...
...According to legend. Dido, daughter of the Tyrian King Mutton and founder of Carthage, committed suicide rather than marry an importunate African chief. Virgil shuffled because Wanter Aeneas was leaving...
From that year until 1942, when the war caused abandonment of the Society, the organization produced "Acts and Galatea," Purcell's "Dido and Aneas" and "King Arthur," Dr. John Blow's "Venus and Adonis," and in 1942, the world premier of "Solomon and Balkis" by Randall Thompson '20, professor of Music...
Partisans of Dido...
Professor Spackman's university students may not agree that the Aeneid contains an exciting love affair [TIME, Sept. 13], but I wish to assure him that high-school students (at least the girls) do. Most of them are strong partisans of Dido. It is some comfort to them and restores Aeneas somewhat in their estimation, to run across the lines where he says he did not leave Dido willingly, but because of the orders of the gods...