Word: islanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flowing brushwork and radiant color scale of Renoir exact joy from an artist and very nearly limit him to that. Clackens' work in the last two decades of his life included fewer sombre or dressed-up studies, more scenes of outdoors and summer. On a Long Island beach he painted early bathing girls in a bobbing timorous ring in blue water. He caught the gaiety of later swimmers from Long Island to St. Jean...
...Chicago, District Attorney William J. Campbell reported that Al Capone, due to be released from Alcatraz Island Penitentiary next month, was suffering from paresis, was out of his head one week in four. Meanwhile Convict Capone was presented with a bill for $57,692.29 from the U. S. Government. The bill was for: 1) a $50,000 fine, 2) $7,692.29 court costs of his income-tax evasion case...
...most difficult and at the same time the most lucid of present-day poets is Laura Riding. Manhattan-born, Laura Riding at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War was settled in Mallorca, where, with Robert Graves, she published books of the Seizin Press. Forced to leave the island at a few hours' notice, she is now living in Brittany until Mallorca returns to its normal ways. An indefatigable worker, she has written nine books of poetry, six of criticism, a novel. This month her Collected Poems (Random House, $4) was published...
...issued which provided special armaments appropriations of $65,000,000, a 20% increase over the regular military expenses already appropriated. Italy's Chief of Staff and Under Secretary for War, General Alberto Pariani. who has recently visited Berlin, was pointedly dispatched to inspect the defenses on the island of Sardinia, eight miles south of Corsica...
When the Frango put in at its pier off Staten Island, N. Y., Lieutenant Midtylng hopped ashore, made his report. Twenty-four hours later U. S. officials seized the ship's $500,000 cargo, sealed it, filed a libel action against 423 tons of her whale...