Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GEORGE WASHINGTON, PATRIOT AND PRESIDENT (Volume VI, 529 pp.)-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner...
...Francisco-born Ellen Rand, daughter of Christopher Temple Emmet (a lawyer and grandnephew of Irish Patriot Robert Emmet), went to study in Paris with Sculptor Frederick MacMonnies. "Everybody was running around that studio," a friend remembers, "nude male models, and there was even a panther in a cage. And here she came into this chaos and just sat there painting simply beautiful things." At the turn of the century, Ellen Rand held her first one-man exhibit in Manhattan, and the procession of the rich and famous to her studio began...
...second time, McCarthy had insulted an old associate of the President's, and Ike was angry and dismayed (see below). General George Marshall. said Ike, "to me has typified all that we call-that we look for-in what we call an American patriot ... I think it is a sorry reward, at the end of at least 50 years of service to this country, to say that he is not a loyal, fine American, and that he served only in order to advance his own personal ambitions...
...Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, to the throne." Then, in secrecy, the priests reached another decision. Suicide is a deadly sin in Moslem theology, but the conclave decided to sanction the use of cyanide capsules by any Moroccan patriot who might be captured by the French...
...Yale Art Gallery was the nation's first college art museum, founded in 1832 by Patriot-Painter John Trumbull to house his own canvases. Since then the gallery has grown steadily bigger and richer, and last year it added a strikingly modern, $1,500,000 wing. But for generations the student favorite at the gallery has been a thoughtful, kind-looking lady who clutches a rabbit to her velvet bosom. The painting is attributed to Piero di Cosimo, and beautifully combines Piero's relaxed good cheer with the dressy formalism of his native Florence...