Word: hatting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chrysanthemums and orchids and roses in such startling sixes and colors, some flower-show visitors felt like throwing in the trowel. Said one lady in sturdy galoshes: "Honestly. I think they go out and buy them somewhere. Who ever heard of anybody raising anything like this." But under every hat, both flowered and sensible, lay a secret resolve to go home and start digging...
...dislike for having "a Pope with a beard." Another Roman papabile is not yet a cardinal: Archbishop Pericle Felici, 50, secretary-general of the Central Preparatory Commission for the Ecumenical Council. A veteran of 15 years in the Curia ranks, Felici will undoubtedly win a red hat. at the next consistory if the Vatican Council is a success...
...famous "wild beast" exhibition that had outraged the Paris critics. As the piano teacher, now Mrs. Therese Jalenko of San Francisco, remembers the day, the four visitors heard derisive laughter the minute they entered the gallery, found a cluster of sneering viewers around Matisse's Woman with a Hat (see color). Sarah grew to love the painting, happened to be in the gallery a few days later when Matisse made his one and only visit. Sarah soon found herself in deep conversation with the painter, who told her that the painting was actually a portrait of his wife...
...friends, unable to make her stop this pathetic exchange of treasure for indulgence, settled for finding local buyers who would pay high prices. The chief crusader, Mrs. Walter Haas, wife of the chairman of Levi Strauss & Co., bought Woman with a Hat for $20,000. Sarah, with growing compulsion, let the paintings go. When she died in 1953, so disturbed that she could not even stand the sight of her few remaining paintings, almost the entire collection had been scattered through...
Largely because of Sarah's enthusiasm, Leo bought the painting for 500 francs (about $100). But Michael and Sarah were soon building up a collection of their own, in 1917 bought Woman with a Hat after Leo turned against Matisse. By the time Michael and Sarah moved back to California in 1935, they had about 50 oils, 20 bronzes, and a stack of drawings, most of them by Matisse...