Word: raoul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Euwe this spring, and Germany's handsome, beefy Ewfimij Dimitriewitsch Bogoljubow. The gallery, watching the tables in the hush of the Hastings and St. Leonards Chess Club, were most interested in two equally famed players neither of whom did as well as might have been expected. José Raoul Capablanca, onetime champion of the world, lost two games and finished fourth, a point behind the winners. Fat, solemn Vera Menchik, world's woman champion, was born in Czechoslovakia, brought up in Moscow, now lives in Hastings. She dismayed her neighbors by winning only one game, finishing just ahead...
...Harold Ross. Born in Aspen, Colo., he had been a waterfront reporter in San Francisco, a picture-snatching newshawk in Atlanta, boss of a Negro gang in Panama and, most important, editor of the A. E. F.'s Stars & Stripes. The other was a suave, good-humored millionaire named Raoul Fleischmann, who at that time was in the bakery business. (His uncle made the yeast...
...sparse luxury advertising, The New Yorker netted $263,000. It has made that much in the first six months of this year, carrying more pages of advertising than the Satevepost. This year's net should top $600,000. No longer a bored businessman playing angel to the arts, Raoul Fleischmann is now proud and happy to be the earnest hardworking publisher of a profitable property...
...Died. Raoul A. Amador, 59, president of the League of Nations Council, Panama's Minister to Paris; of pneumonia; in Paris...
Three dates, each five years apart, are epochal in the life of Raoul Dufy. In 1895, one of nine children of a bourgeois family in Havre, he first began to paint as relaxation from clerking in an importing firm. In 1900 he went to Paris, studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under pompous Père Léon Joseph Bonnat. In 1905, he saw for the first time Henri Matisse's canvas Luxe, calme et volupté. "Confronted by that picture," he said, "I understood all the new reasons for painting." He immediately joined the famed Matisse...