Word: mrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrilled at the very idea of working for him. It was not until he met her at the plane in Rome that she "realized it was Roberto, the man, who had inspired her . . ." Now she did not intend to return to the U.S. until she could come back as Mrs. Rossellini. To Hearst's Hollywood Gossipist Louella Parsons, McDonald confided that Ingrid was ready to give Husband Peter half their community property in exchange for a divorce, and to put the other half in a trust for Pia, their eleven-year-old daughter. "She has no hard feelings toward...
...were a very young married woman starting life . . ." said Mrs. Winston Churchill to the graduating class of the National Institute of Houseworkers, "I think I should try to pass the examination myself. I should feel embarrassed working together [with you] if I was doing everything badly, or if I did not know how to iron a child's frock...
...Comers. Mrs. Whitney, unlike her uptown friends who were concentrating on collecting old masters and French impressionists, decided to do what she could to encourage young hopefuls in the U.S. She opened her studio to her more promising Village neighbors, was soon holding exhibitions and buying the works of such up & comers as George Luks and Everett Shinn...
...decided to move to bigger quarters, called on her sister-in-law's secretary, the 37-year-old wife of Dentist Willard Burdette Force, to help her out. From then on, with forceful, explosive Mrs. Force as front man, the Whitney Studio went great guns. By 1928 the Whitney Studio Club, where artists could get together and show their works, had 400 members and 400 more were clamoring to get in. Dozens of artists including Painters John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Reginald Marsh and Sculptor John B. Flannagan, had had their first one-man shows at the Whitney. Works...
...Closed Shop. But in 1929, when the team of Whitney & Force tried to close up shop and retire, they found to their chagrin that modern U.S. art was still not well enough established for Manhattan's crusty Metropolitan Museum to accept Mrs. Whitney's collection, even as a gift. Ruffled and angry, they decided to go into the museum business themselves with Mrs. Force as boss...