Word: topaz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Pauline ("The Girl With the Topaz Eyes") Frederick, 53, onetime stage & screen star (Joseph and His Brothers, Zaza, Resurrection), of asthma and heart disease, in Hollywood...
Shortly afterward, despite his absence from the life class, he won a $500 traveling scholarship. Wandering into the Sainte Chapelle in Paris just as the sunset struck its windows, Student Saint was overwhelmed by the "solid walls of jewel-like color - rubies, sapphires, golds, topaz tints, amethysts, Tokay grape shades and whites like old lace." His interest solidly caught in this religious art, Lawrence Saint lost no time in becoming an expert on stained glass, made 50 notable illustrations for the famed Stained Glass of the Middle Ages in England and France by English Expert Hugh Arnold...