Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot and Mrs. Brine's motive in being with Rivera was, of course, to get to know him and his work at first hand. In the process they underwent a thorough lecture course on mural painting and on pre-Cortesian sculpture. Rivera showed them hundreds of his sculptures, one by one, and stood for hours on end while he explained his archaeological theories. He also accompanied them on a trip to see his murals. After a long, silent examination of one of them Rivera turned and said: "I haven't seen this mural since I painted...
They got used to the easy Mexican tempo and to the admiring friends who gather round Rivera wherever he appears. His courtesy and rocklike equanimity in answering every question Eliot and Mrs. Brine put to him were most impressive. Rivera, in turn, was impressed by Mrs. Brine's almost continuous note-taking. Whenever she stopped recording his conversation, it worried him. Once, when she paused for a rest during a discussion of Rivera's experiences in the U.S., he gestured toward her notebook. "No," she explained, "we can't possibly print everything...
...Soviet woman, despite her sturdiness and resistance to hunger, cold, and suffering, cannot thrive on the misery that is her lot," said Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped from a third floor window last summer rather than go back to the U.S.S.R. Russian women, she said, "age fast and die prematurely...
...last February, Mrs. Olive Du-rand-Deacon left her respectable London hotel to keep an appointment with dapper, 39-year-old John George Haigh. She was never seen again. Three days later, Haigh himself went to the police station and reported the disappearance. The wealthy 6g-year-old widow, he said, had never shown up for the date...
...when Haigh was formally charged with Mrs. Durand-Deacon's murder last month, the stories were toned down in conformance with law and immemorial British journalistic practice. Once a person has been charged with a crime, English law prohibits publication of evidence that might prejudice a fair trial for the accused...