Word: melone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show's brightest attractions were the French girls Renoir was "always anxious to paint as beautiful fruits." Three-fourths of the pictures were dominated by his sloe-eyed, apple-cheeked, melon-curved women who had a tree-ripened look about them that few other painters could match. Filled with preternatural healthiness, they always seemed to enjoy themselves-boating, strolling on the beach, playing at shuttlecock, buying a hat or peacefully dozing...
...burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed put a spell on his drawing hand, made it swell to the size of a melon. "A native doctor took the spell away," he says. "Allah be praised...
Sometimes it tastes like lemon, sometimes like melon or hazelnut, and then like peppermint...