Word: riviera
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...Mostly at their house in Paris and at La Crôe, their faintly colonial villa on the Riviera...
Pablo Picasso got down on his knees to look. What he was looking at was a firmly painted picture of a red brick Riviera villa, at a preview of a Paris exhibition. The charming villa, La Dragonniėre at Cap Martin, rose from a brilliant green meadow dotted with gnarled olive trees. When he had finished looking, Painter Picasso said: "If that man were a painter by profession, he would have no trouble earning a good living." The signature on the canvas: Winston Churchill...
...Father Alfred Dowson was far more interested in talking with his friends, Algernon Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson, than in keeping "Dowson's" shipshape. Mother Annie Dowson, who was also tuberculous, nursed her lungs in retiring despondency. In winter the sickly parents took their sickly child to the Riviera. There he learned the classical Latin line that framed his work ever afterward, and discovered French literature and the way of life that became his obsession...
This week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch was still driving northward from the Riviera toward a junction with the northern armies of General Eisenhower. So badly disorganized was the opposition that much of the time it did not know where its own units were. To avoid helping the enemy, Allied commanders let their communiques lag days behind developments in the field...
...showing no trace of an eye injury received in the jungle last spring, told at last why operations in his command had been so maddeningly slow: landing craft allocated to him after the Quebec Conference had been sent instead to the Mediterranean, for landings at Anzio and on the Riviera. Result: he and General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell (who now sports his full general's four stars for the first time) had had to cut their campaign suit from a remnant...