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Word: handcart (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...does not now, raise a finger to attract a customer or sell a canvas but occasionally he moved quickly. As soon as Cézanne died Fifi hopped a train for Aix, bought the entire contents of Cézanne's studio, loaded it on a handcart and pushed off for the station. The last canvas came hustling through an open window from the hands of the bereaved family just in time for him to make his train. The War closed the doors of the Rue Laffitte shop. The Impressionists grew old and died. Fifi Vollard remains the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Georges & Fifi | 11/13/1933 | See Source »

...Chicago, for 25 years Bill Kearns pushed a dilapidated handcart about the streets, bought old rags, junk, bottles. Fortnight ago Bill Kearns died, left over $1,000.000 in cash and Government bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clerk | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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