Word: sou
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more coffins yielded not a sou. The eighth disclosed the body of a recently deceased War veteran; he mutilated a cold clammy hand in trying to snatch the rings from its fingers...
...skill of Benes in extracting millions from a country whence Andrew Mellon cannot coax a sou...
...works specified by M. Vigoroux as spurious include 1) A ceramic piece attributed to Lucca della Robbia, 15th Century Florentine sculptor, sold to an official of the Metropolitan for $3,000, and "not worth a sou." (The Metropolitan contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people...