Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant, luminous canvases were even then bringing up to $10,000 each, an estate of several million dollars was involved. Bonnard's friends were gloomy; in their opinion there was no escape from the basic French law of "community of goods," and in time of war, with half France occupied by the Nazis, Vichy government officials would certainly sell his goods to pay Marthe's inheritance taxes. If only she had left a will...
...inept a scoundrel that he dated the will on the day he wrote it-ten months after Marthe's death. When Bonnard himself died in 1947, the obvious fakery of the will threw everything into confusion. Bonnard's direct heirs found themselves challenged for a half share in the estate by four nieces of his wife Marthe. The works that Bonnard had left behind-some 600 oil paintings, 500 watercolors, hundreds of drawings-were put under seal in the vaults of a Paris bank...
...friends Domenica Walter, Jean Lacaze and Dr. Maurice Lacour, Maggie attended a gala opera performance in honor of visiting King Paul and Queen Frederika of Greece. Her close relationship with Domenica and Jean had business as well as social overtones: through her own Newmont Mining Corp., Maggie owned nearly half the stock in Domenica's and Jean's rich Zellidja mines. There were rumors that, dissatisfied with the long-term plans of the Zellidja management, she was planning to sell her shares...
...Heavy favorites failed to make the grade in two of the winter's richest horse races. In the $145,000 Santa Anita Handicap, C. W. Smith's Hillsdale (at 4 to 5 odds) was overtaken by Terrang in the last hundred yards, lost by half a length. In the $135,800 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah, Christopher T. Chenery's flashy three-year-old, First Landing (17 to 20), was never a serious factor, finished third behind Bayard Sharp's Troilus...
...minutes later, Farmer North was through with a job that would have taken five men half a day working with buckets and pitchforks. He was ready to indulge his hobby. He returned to his farmhouse and poured himself another cup of coffee. While it cooled, he read a story on the "farm problem" in the Wall Street Journal. Carrying his cup and a cigarette, he walked into his living room, 40 feet long and beige-carpeted wall to wall. It was dominated at the far end by a two-story pipe organ flanked by two electronic organs and a grand...