Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty. For the past year the King and Queen have been living amid England's idyllic countryside, as happy as Mr. & Mrs. James J. Walker and others who find their homelands in 1935 simply too tiresome. Last week when correspondents rushed to Knowle House, rented from Sir Eric Bonham, they were greeted by King Prajadhipok's dapper young secretary, wearing grey flannel trousers and a pullover beneath his coat...
...that extraordinary event said 75-year-old Sir Henry Walter Gilbey: "I don't think it of much public interest...
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...sentimentalists there were such pieces as the flashily painted Exit Clown, Ballet Girl and Harlequin, and the portrait of Sir Henry Irving as Shylock. And for college boys there were the Shinn nudes, mostly in pastel on colored paper with the high lights carefully brought out. There were enough of these young ladies gazing into mirrors (see cut), reclining on sofas, etc., etc. to outfit a dozen cocktail bars...
...Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait of Elizabeth by Nicholas Milliard. On the back...