Word: moreau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moreau? We had a terrible row. About pacifism . . . He ended up by almost strangling me . . . Here, look at his last letter . . . Just imagine, he pinned me against a lamppost, grabbed me by the throat, while he shouted dramatically, 'I'll have you, Elisabeth, or I'll kill you!' . . . I said to him, 'Strangle me, but don't kiss...
...Commune. A poor boy. he started work at 14 in a stained-glass factory. The experience helped shape his art. in which the world gleams like colored bits of broken bottles. At 20, Rouault quit his job to study painting at the feet of a sympathetic academician named Gustave Moreau, who gave him solid training and a word of hard advice: "Give thanks to God that you are not successful until as late as possible. Only thus will you be able to experiment freely and without restraint...
...Curaçao. In Dr. Barbeau's records, the most detailed account of the Dancer is that of his supposed appearance at a party given by the Moreau family of L'Islet County on a Saturday night in 1917. The Moreaus were entertaining on their small farm outside Cap Saint-Ignace for their son Pierre, who had been lumbering in the U.S. for three years. After dinner the guests drank deep of rum, curaçao and whisky, and the fiddler struck up a lively tune. "Let's dance," a guest proposed. Everyone remembered that the village...
...sweeps along, the Missouri gathers the waters of one tributary after another: the Sun, Teton, Judith, Marias, Musselshell, Milk, Yellowstone (fed, in turn, by the Bighorn, Greybull, Shoshone, Tongue and Powder), the Little Missouri, Knife, Heart, Cannonball, Grand, Moreau, Belle Fourche, Cheyenne, Bad, White, Big Sioux, James, Niobrara, Elkhorn, Platte, Little Sioux, Nishnabotna, Kansas (made up of the Republican, Solomon, Saline, Smoky Hill and Blue), the Grand, Chariton, Osage and Gasconade...
Eliot's squash champions will meet Yale's Calhoun College today at Yale, Calhoun has a perfect record of nine wins and no defeats for this season. Moreau Brown, Calhoun's number one man, is twelfth on the northern squash ladder, and was second in the Yale Intra-college tournament...