Word: milkmaid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night of January 14, the Russian had demonstrated that he was little more than a foreign cad-he admitted that he was married. He also tried to kiss her, for the first time. Judy had reacted like a milkmaid being pinched by a dry-goods drummer; she had wept and whacked him with a folded newspaper. Nevertheless, on the weekend of her arrest, she came back to New York "to get this thing settled...
...tried hard to laugh about the shortcomings of their new Five-Year Plan and the purges that came in its wake. The humorous weekly, Crocodile, ran a cover cartoon of a man filling milk cans at a water pump. Each can bore the legend "100% fulfilled." The caption: "Chief milkmaid, or how Tovarish Figure-Chaser fulfills the plan." To make the picture still funnier, P. V. Smirnov, the head of Russia's meat and milk production, was promptly fired. But the comedy was still strictly official. For in Russia last week a full-fledged purge, affecting all departments...
...most gallerygoers the art of Marc Chagall has always been a good deal of a riddle. The puzzle began when Painter Chagall rushed from St. Petersburg to Paris with a canvas showing a decapitated milkmaid floating in an emetic sky while a pink cow was suckled by a pair of pea-green apes on a Russian rooftop. Paris was baffled. Even the Left Bank was slow to understand that Painter Chagall's graphic defiance of the laws of physics and biology was the work of a deeply religious, idealistic young Jew who was merely recreating from his imagination...
...exhibition of great art, the show was worth many times the price of admission (50?). On the somber, dignified Duveen walls were spread 15 Rembrandts, 15 of the finest of Frans Hals's broad-brushed portraits, Vermeer Van Delft's world-famed $500,000 The Milkmaid (see cut), meticulous landscapes, still lifes and street scenes by Hobbema, Jan Steen, Nicolaes Maes and dozens of minor masters...
Some had been borrowed from U.S. museums and private collections. Many had never been seen in the U.S. before. Others, like The Milkmaid (owned by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), had been sent originally to the New York World's Fair. One jewellike Domestic Scene by Jan Steen was lent by King George of England, reached the U.S. by bomber. The 70 masterpieces, insured for $5,000,000, represented one of the most valuable art hoards of its size ever assembled in a private gallery...