Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train pulled out he politely tipped his hat, and thus revealed to the Regent's vigilant police his false queuetating him, but in the meantime the revolution of October 1911, led by Dr. Sun Yatsen, broke out; he was released and his chains were thereafter displayed in the Peking Museum...
...with his program. Sophie refused to go. An officer suggested that they go to the Governor's residence. "Do you think Sarajevo is full of assassins?" was General Potiorek's squelcher. Finally the Archduke decided to scrap the program which would have taken him to the town museum and to drive straight back to visit his wounded aide in the hospital. As Franz Ferdinand and Sophie again entered their car (see cut, right), he was informed that Chabrinovitch had been collared by police in the dry river bed. "Hang him as soon as you can," he exclaimed bitterly...
...Municipal Arts Museum in Bruges last week King Leopold attended the opening of the year's most important Belgian exhibition: 41 paintings by Memling, brought together from collections as widely separated as Lübeck and Cleveland. One of the few important Memlings not included was the Last Judgment altarpiece in Danzig Cathedral, unavailable because of "international tension." About the finest thing in the exhibition was an altarpiece in nine panels (polyptych) from Lübeck, painted with an austere simplification of detail rare in Flemish art. Most famous of all, and best proof of "Master Hans...
...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...
...Fair corporation enterprise, this little Louvre advertised nothing but the public spirit of a few rich sponsors and the taste of the man who assembled it, the Detroit Museum's grey, spare, spry Director Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner. Twice as big as the Old Masters exhibition at the San Francisco Exposition (TIME, March 6), it covered every major school of European art up to the French Revolution. It was remarkable also in that no less than 88 works were being shown publicly for the first time in the U. S. Lent by great foreign museums or private and inaccessible collections...