Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other half in a trust for Pia, their eleven-year-old daughter. "She has no hard feelings toward him," McDonald reported. "She feels as a daughter would toward a father, but says she has never been in love in her life until she met Rossellini. . . Miss Bergman has done everything to avoid bitterness but she was deeply hurt when Dr. Lindstrom tried to send a psychiatrist to examine her. Naturally she refused to see a psychiatrist because it wasn't Rossellini's influence that caused her to fall in love, nor was she sick...
...which was started by the boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire to conform to tradition...
...year-old Lautrec died, his delicate health overtaxed by Montmartre's fast-paced night life. Demanding the best in printing, colors and paper, he had gained little from his excursions into "commercial" art beyond the satisfaction of a job magnificently done. But by last week his posters, which had at one time decorated kiosks, boulevard hoardings and alley walls all over Paris, were collectors' items bringing prices up to $400 a copy...
...police had not yet disclosed who had done the "salting," or how.* Next day, Milne's Free State Gold Areas tumbled 41% in value, to 8s. a share...
Masterpiece by Mistake. Last week U.S. readers could discover what they had been missing. Samuel Putnam, a Renaissance specialist who has done the best translation of Rabelais, has reversed Cervantes' vast tapestry into English without dropping more than a few stitches of detail and coloring...