Word: moreen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Plain Yorkshiremen found it pretty hard to digest, but few gallerygoers found the show impossible. A bespectacled schoolgirl named Moreen Beedle was one of the few. "My dad said I should come along and look at it," she explained, "because he was at school with Henry Moore. But I don't know, looks a proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus...
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