Word: morning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another impulse, he paid 90,000 francs for Chabas' innocuous and notorious September Morn. Now, with many of his best pieces farmed out,* he lives in Lisbon's tiny, luxurious Hotel Aviz, also has a palatial home in Paris and another in London. He has no art scouts, does all his purchasing by himself, or on the advice of a few trusted dealers. National Gallery officials would say nothing of Gulbenkian himself last week except that he was "extremely modest" and "a real connoisseur": one of the conditions of the loan was that there must be no personal...
Collector of Oils. With his oil wealth, Gulbenkian acquired one of the world's finest private art collections, including the famed September Morn by Paul Chabas, and a palatial house on Paris' Avenue d'Iéna. Yet he lived in such fear of his life that he invariably spent his nights in a Paris hotel, where he felt safer...
Their journal strayed far from the path they blazed, got lost more than once in the plush-horse latitudes of high society. But later editors kept up their fight for women's rights, gumptiously ran Chabas' September Morn (1912) in protest against the prudish post-Victorian ban on nudes. To instruct the well-to-do in the things it was well to do, they helped make skiing, motoring and flying socially acceptable...
Bright & early on Thanksgiving morn, as usual, the poor man's hunting season got its start in North Carolina. Short-legged, flop-eared beagles sniffed into brush-piles and thickets, set up a howl when they flushed a rabbit, worked it back before the hunters' guns. Some wistful old rabbit hunters were willing to settle just for the music of the hounds' high-pitched cry; others set their mouths for rabbit stew. The guns blazed away...
...Holy smoke," was the word on the lips of all loyal Indians on the morn of the first Harvard invasion of their territory in half a century. They clenched their fists in anger as they read that Cambridge pranksters had poisoned the squad's candy ration a fight from a "feminine admirer...