Word: millets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeing Sunday magazine articles enriched by reproductions of classic paintings- often of Eves and Bathshebas nuder than Follies beauties-readers of last Sunday's New York Mirror magazine section blinked in bewilderment at the fertile genius of the make-up man who had coupled Painter Jean Francois Millet's famed '"Gleaners" with an article by Kathleen Norris. Substance of Author Norris' article was a complaint that employers are unfair to married women, fill jobs with unmarried women. "Idleness," pleaded the writer, ''and the lack of means of self-expression is one of the great...
...Saratsi Minister Johnson visited millet fields that had been swept clear of grain by rats. The Saratsi farmers, crafty little people, did not complain. They told Mr. Johnson that they hunted out the rats' holes, stole the grain the industrious rats had harvested...
Harvard Club of Berkshire. President: Robert K. Thompson '23, 173 Church St., North Adams. Vice-President: John A. P. Millet '10, M. D. '14, Stockbridge. Secretary-Treasurer: Frank E. Crawford '11, Berkshire School, Sheffield...
...Grandson Millet procured the services of Paul Cazeau, artist, onetime house painter, whom he urged to a prolific aping of the manner of Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
...successful were the trio that they soon added bogus Corots, Degas, Daumiers, Sisleys and Pissarros to their stock. Some of these sold as high as $10,000. On the untidy profits, Grandson Millet's wife and children thrived. When he was apprehended, the police reported that he had sold more than 4,000 fakes. Cheery, un- daunted, he admitted that the collection he had sold to the Millet Museum at Barbizon was entirely sham. Said he: "I had a good time, but this is the unconventional unhappy ending. The Americans from Missouri, the Continentals and the English fell the hardest...