Word: luxembourg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ferocious wind, she alarmed her family by not returning home. Next morning she reported that when her tent had collapsed she had "crawled out from under and put it up again." In Paris, where she lived when her parents separated, she used to borrow the goat-cart in the Luxembourg Gardens and sell the rides herself. When she was 14 she copied out the entire memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt in longhand, an act of adolescent devotion which may have helped form her whole character and to which the great stage lady was not insensible. Debunkers have labelled this tale...
...Albania Austria Belgium Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Denmark Esthonia Finland France Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Irish Free State Italy Jugoslavia Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Rumania Spain Sweden Switzerland...
...their beaux, a shelter for nurse-girls and babies on rainy days, a "point of interest" for out-of-towners. It is the only official museum of art in New York City. Last week art circles were stirred by news that Manhattan is to have a U. S. Luxembourg.* Spurred by the fact that in Cleveland, The Hague, Rotterdam, Worcester and all great art-conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition...
Charging $1 to $4: France, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Austria, Chile, Spain...
Last week a Ministerial decree announced the imminent transfer of the Luxembourg collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...