Word: halifax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exile, the Batistas lived at Daytona, where the ex-President liked to row in the Halifax River and browse in his library. He also looked after his extensive Florida real-estate investments, which reportedly include several big Miami Beach hotels...
...Nova Scotia Museum of Fine Arts in Halifax, an impressive array of notables assembled one day last week for a special ceremony: the presentation of two 17th century landscapes attributed to the Italian artist Salvator Rosa. What brought out the notables was not so much the Rosas as their roundabout arrival...
...Somerueles, flying the American flag, was bowling westward over the Atlantic and ran into trouble in the form of a British man-o'-war. The Somerueles and her cargo, including crates of Italian art for Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, were hauled off to Halifax as prizes...
...little academy was stunned by the news. In desperation, its directors decided to petition Halifax to send the paintings back. "Knowing," said the directors, "that even war does not leave science and art unprotected, and that Britons have often considered themselves at peace with these, we are not without hopes of seeing them . . ." In Halifax, Vice-Admiralty Justice Sir Alexander Croke made Philadelphia a gentlemanly, periwigged bow. "Heaven forbid," he said, "that such an application to the generosity of Great Britain should ever be ineffectual." After a learned recital of the laws of war, Sir Alexander concluded with a full...
...story came to an end. Most of the paintings in the 1812 shipment seemed to have been lost in the bad academy fire of 1845, but the academy still had three Rosas which, it believed, had been part of that shipment. It turned two of the three over to Halifax "with real sensations of pleasure...