Word: huts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty bird that once roamed the island. Wrapping the prize in his loincloth, he ran with it to the chief of his village. Word of the find sped from hut to drowsy hut, and after sundown the natives jubilantly shouted and danced the war dance which they call the berida...
...When Paul Gauguin died of syphilis in 1903, few were really sorry. He had always been a lone wolf: as stockbroker, family man, runaway painter he had always pursued his own proud, peculiar way, and his enemies were thicker than his friends. When he died alone in his hut in the Marquesas Islands, his wife and their five children, long strangers to him, were half the world away in Denmark. Since 1903 many a critic has climbed over the fence and given Gauguin's painting nearly as high marks as he gave it himself, but few champions have been...
...even Tahiti disgusted him-the corrupted natives, the venal officials, the whites who stood him drinks to laugh at his diatribes. He left Tahiti for the Marquesas. Though his disease was growing on him fast he would not go to the hospital, lived alone in a native hut, drank more & more. For siding with the natives against government officials he was tried, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. But before the sentence could be carried out, death took Gauguin...
...think I have read your journal from the initial issue and at times with a great deal of interest. Sometimes the scoops you have made, and the way in which you have made them, have really been a credit to journalism, hut I wonder what happened when you tried to write up the article in the Dec. 14 issue on the King and Mrs. Simpson. You tried to be funny, you tried to be almost everything, and succeeded in nothing. I do not know any better frustration in journalism than this article. It seemed now and then that you were...
...headliner in last week's exhibition. Other interesting Dalis exhibited included a drawing, fine as an Italian master's, of a nude woman with a body made of half-open bureau drawers, and a painting of a group of African natives squatting before a dome-shaped hut...