Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last July the British cruiser Suffolk was warped to a berth in Portsmouth harbor. While nervous Chinese gentlemen hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy...
...sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain...
...right and he should know because he was his brother. Then another Robert F. Key turned up who claimed he was a cousin of U. C. L. A.'s Key but that that Key was not "Ted" but "Shorty," and he should know because he had lent him his high-school credentials so he could get into U. C. L. A. After a week of this kind of nonsense, U. C. L. A.'s Key suddenly came out of hiding and confessed what nearly everybody else at U. C. L. A. except Dean Miller had known...
...gallery, subdivided for the occasion into three formal rooms, it presented 58 pictures and 60 statues which comprised the most important exhibition of 18th Century French art the U. S. has ever seen. In France and the U. S. 44 collections ranging from the Louvre's (which lent ten exhibits) to a Kansas City art museum's were raided to make the Metropolitan show possible. Such private collectors as the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Mellons, the Baches also contributed. Thirty million dollars was a conservative estimate of the show's total value. Gaping gallery-goers...
...Houdon's marble bust of Voltaire, lent by the Comedie Franchise. ¶Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...