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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mead fell from fashion after the Reformation cut down the use of beeswax for church candles; apiarists, no longer able to sell their byproduct wax to the chandlers, found it unprofitable to make honey just for the mead makers...
...After lengthy palaver, it appeared that Mrs. Mesta had picked the wrong country: the frontier she tried to cross was not Luxembourg's, but Belgium's. Two miles away an official welcoming committee was waiting, all set with flowers and speeches. By the time the party finally found little Luxembourg, the welcoming committee had become discouraged and gone home...
Catching a mountain lion in a coyote trap is quite a surprise. Finance Minister Ramon Beteta last week found how it feels. He had set out to run down the silver smugglers who had been cheating the government of export taxes and dollar earnings. He ended up with the ultra-conservative Banco de Comercio, S.A., the country's biggest private banking house, on his hands...
Mexican Painter Diego Rivera, an on-again, off-again Communist Party member, found old ties still binding. When he sought a visa to attend a Los Angeles testimonial dinner, the U.S. embassy politely referred him to Attorney General J. Howard McGrath. Protested Rivera: "I don't have the honor to belong to the Communist Party. I'm just a simple democrat like anybody else...
Purity & Flavor. The master had turned his palace into a picture factory, where his students did most of the work. Rubens would supply them with sketches, add a few finishing touches when the paintings were done, and sign them with a flourish. He soon found that young Van Dyck's work needed no finishing touches. Experts have since despaired of telling some of their portraits apart. The student's are as bold and right as the master's own, with the same purity and flavor, and only a little less body-for with all his talents...