Word: ruel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fast did he throw a ball that no average catcher could "hold him." Finally "Gabby" Street was found. "Gabby" talked a lot but could catch and hold anything, even a ball thrown from the top of the Washington Monument. After Street, Edward Ainsmith was discovered. At present one "Muddy" Ruel risks his palms and finger tips stopping Johnson's 'bulletlike "in visibles." Tall, blonde, 37 a native of Humboldt, Kan., father to three sons, John son has been called "greatest pitcher of all time," a possible equal being "Christy" Matthewson of the New York Giants...
...Phillips Memorial Gallery, of Washington, D. C, according to news despatches, has bought Auguste Renoir's Le Dejeúner des Canotiers á Bougival, long the property of M. Durand Ruel, the dealer-collector, at a price rumored to be the "highest ever paid for a modern painting." Durand Ruel had previously refused $150,000 for it but apparently the overtures of the Washington Gallery were goldenly persuasive...
...picture was painted in 1881 and has been seen in public but little, though M. Durand Ruel lent it to a Renoir exhibition in Paris last Winter. The scene is a famous French restaurant, and the artist's wife, with her dog and two or three artistic friends, including Caillebotte, are in the composition. The size is 51 by 69 inches...