Word: quests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inspiring, the ruins look more like the trylon at the New York World's Fair with the top knocked off. Soon the diggers are blowing the ruins to bits. They have the hidden treasures neatly crated in their jungle hideaway by the time Joan Bennett arrives in quest of her explorer husband...
...Quest for Wisdom...
...loyal Sketch Clubber for 50 years was red-faced, sedate Portraitist Louis Hasselbusch. He never missed a Christmas party; when he died in 1938 he left the club $500 towards the party's upkeep, plus his "pictures, sketches and studio effects." Last week this apparently inconsiderable be quest turned out to be a windfall. In his studio's litter was a small oil painting on a wooden panel, signed H. D., and titled (by Hasselbusch) Conjugal Parisiene (sic). Joyful experts identified it as one of famed Lithographer Honore Daumier's rare paintings. The Sketch Club banked...