Word: musee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clio, the Muse of History (for it was she), looked up, her finger on her lips. "Shh!" she said, "the Big Three Conference is just ending down there. What with security regulations, censorship and personal secretiveness, the only way I can find out anything these days is by peeping. And who are you?" she asked, squinting slightly (history is sometimes a little shortsighted). "I've seen you somewhere before...
...Stalin! You?" gasped the Muse of History...
...Couldn't you stay home?" asked the Muse of History. "And leave Nicky alone with those sharpers! He never could do anything without me. Besides, I doubt if you know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...
...Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described as "the greatest this country has ever seen." Christie's privately sold Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Reynolds' Tragic Muse for ?200,000 to California's Huntington Collection...
Students whose consistent Saturday stadium allocations in the colonnade have led them to muse on "the lucky coaches who get the best seats in the house for every Crimson football game" can stop their griping as far as Varsity end mentor Harry Jacunski is concerned...