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Word: litters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis Hasselbusch. He never missed a Christmas party; when he died in 1938 he left the club $500 towards the party's upkeep, plus his "pictures, sketches and studio effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked it in a safe-deposit vault, planned to sell "to the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Windfall | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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