Word: ostend
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Died. Baron James Ensor, 89, Belgium's major modern artist, noted for his masked, fantastic figures; in Ostend, Belgium. Pre-Surrealist Ensor, little known and seldom shown in the U.S., was, like fellow pioneers Gauguin and Van Gogh, among the first to go beyond impressionist painting...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...
They had marched in triumph behind their bagpipes through the streets of Dieppe where 3,350 of their countrymen had fallen. They had cleared (and taken) not only Dieppe but Nieuport, Ostend and Zeebrugge. They had crossed the Somme, overrun Vimy Ridge and Ypres, where their fathers died. And now England, where they had spent four years of frustration, was immeasurably grateful to them because they had rolled up and tucked away the robot coast for good...
...years James Ensor, who never set foot out of Belgium, remained an English citizen. In 1930 Belgium's King Albert created Ensor a baron for his contribution to Belgium's esthetic reputation. Ensor became a Belgian. A street was named after him in his native Ostend. A tablet was placed on the wall of his house saying that he lived there. A statue of him was erected in Ostend's Casino Gardens. He unveiled it himself...
Until recently, James Ensor kept open his father's little Ostend souvenir shop, did an average business of 35 francs a day. Before the war the painter was heavily represented in the museums of Antwerp, Brussels, Dresden and Vienna, and not at all in the museums of England, where he held his first British exhibition...