Word: mistral
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...comparison of Moscow's Van Goghs (MGM received transparencies of them too late to include them in the film) makes clear, as the story does not, that Van Gogh's epilepsy halted his painting, but does not explain it. The Grape Harvest, painted in the buffeting mistral outside Aries before Van Gogh's first attack, is faithful to the glowing description he wrote his brother of a "red vineyard, all red like red wine. In the distance it turned to yellow, and then a green sky with the sun, the earth after the rain violet, sparkling yellow...
Haring's award is one made annually by the Academy of American Franciscan History in memory of Fr. Junipero Serra, a missionary to southern California. Past recipients of the award are Sumner Wells, ex-United States Under-Secretary of State, and Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet...
...race, was busily building the last of his challengers, Shamrock V. A new racing class, the 30-ft. Atlantic Class sloop, was hot off the drafting board of famed Designer W. Starling Burgess (Shields was to win the national Atlantic championship two years later). In the 40 ft. Mistral, Corny raced among the billowing sails of the New York Yacht Club cruise...
...yawl White Mist, owned and skippered by G. W. Blunt White of Mystic, Conn., crossed the finish line first in the third annual sailing race from Buenos Aires, to win the South Atlantic Blue Ribbon. On a corrected-time, i.e., handicap, basis, two smaller Brazilian yachts, Cairu and Mistral, placed one-two ahead of White Mist...
Over Marignarie, France, Mrs. Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of France's President Auriol. piloted a jet Mistral 76 to a new women's world speed record of 534.92 m.p.h., bettering her own former record of 508.09 m.p.h., set last year...