Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concentration on golf and poker make him friends and keep them. Although his interest in etchings has long been known, few persons realized until last week what an important print collector Mr. Wiggin is. On view were 271 different works illustrating practically the entire career of the late great Jean-Louis Forain who, starting out as a bitter satirist of middle class life, at his death in 1931 was known as one of the greatest religious draughtsmen since Rembrandt. Mr. Wiggin's Forain collection is unmatched in the U. S., has only three peers in Europe: the Dresden Museum...
...Jean-Louis Forain is by no means the only artist Mr. Wiggin collects. He boasts the most-complete-in-the-world collections of three famed Scotch etchers: James McBey, Muirhead Bone, Sir David Young Cameron. Among his hundreds of miscellaneous prints is the famed "Hundred Guilder Print" of Rembrandt's "Christ Healing the Sick...
...spread over Europe. Between the continents it hit the Cameronia, put 500 passengers to berth, killed none. Off England last week the entire crew of a fishing smack caught the disease, but kept to sea until they exhausted their rum & quinine. French battleships Paris and Jean Bart reported most of their personnel disabled...
...Nephew Jean Auguste took the beret, but would not wear it. His younger brothers looked on shyly...
...York Evening Post was the only Metropolitan newspaper to develop the story in Chemist Jean Piccard. The article swiftly became a significant, lucid disquisition on identical twins, i.e., twins conceived in the same ovum as were Auguste & Jean Piccard.* Said Chemist Jean Piccard: "It is a well-known fact that usually one of two identical twins is left-handed while the other one is righthanded. It is well known also that there are many more left-handed persons who never had any twin...