Word: girls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided by the age of 30 that art was more important than a good living; he lit out for Paris. Soon he was painting competent, easy-to-take hybrids of Sargent and Whistler, and with them winning prizes and acclaim. With An Arrangement, a low-keyed study of a girl in shirtwaist and skirt kneeling on an oriental carpet, he pulled down the fattest plum the U.S. had to offer an artist, $1,500 and a gold medal for the best painting in the 1901 Carnegie International. Collectors began buying his conventional canvases, museums began displaying them...
...shrouds the butchery is Mme. Jakubowska's greatest achievement. A Nazi officer killing a child whistles unconcernedly throughout; another SS man calmly plays the gramophone while his henchmen single their victim's flesh with hot pokers. Probably most effective and certainly most pathetic are the scenes showing the girl who was chosen to lead the band as it played the rhythms to which the whole camp marched; during all the thousand crimes which the Nazis committed to the tune of her music, she had to stand alone on her bandstand without flinching...
...park, and to "preserve security," the speaker asked for "last initials only" and shooed away passers-by. The speaker stated, according to Warshaw's notes, that the "rumors are being spread to defame the present regime ... to disrupt the delegation." He went on to say that a girl within the group had admitted the night before that she was guilty of spreading rumors...
According to the speaker, the girl had admitted "that her purpose in coming to the festival had not been to work for peace but to see 'what Hungary was like,' and to study art." In view of this incident, the Steering Committee asked the power to investigate similar people whose purposes were "disruptive" in closed hearings, and to recommend their expulsion...
Warshaw's notes detail the remainder of the meeting. "The accused girl was given the right to defend herself publicly. She broke down in tears, but made the following points. She had been questioned at length, by the Steering Committee the evening before. She had been charged with making anti Negro statements. She said she had freely discussed her reasons for going to the Festival with an official of the delegation, and challenged the person she had told them to to corroborate this. The person did not speak up. At one point, the accused girl had to stop...