Word: washerwoman
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...painted. Evenings, he smoked, played the spinet, and entertained a few local callers. "Day follows day with unvaried movement," he declared; "there is the same level meadow with geese upon it always lying before my eyes: the same pollard oaks: with now and then the butcher or the washerwoman trundling...
...nostalgic journey started in the center of France's capital with the most beautiful canvas in the show, Honore Daumier's golden glimpse of a washerwoman ascending the steps from the river to the Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
Marian Anderson, 33, patrician Negro contralto, daughter of a onetime washerwoman, won the $10,000 Philadelphia Award (founded in 1921 by the late Edward W. Bok), given annually to the person who does most for the community. Contralto Anderson promised the money to "poor, unfortunate, very talented people...
...Yearsley, "the Poetical Milk-Woman of Bristol," who succeeded the "Poetic Washerwoman of Peterfield." While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote. The Blue-stocking Club rechristened her "Lactilla." No lady, Lactilla too had to be dropped...
Some of the twelve scenes started toward straight satire but most of them wound up utterly cuckoo. When Savo performed a drunken surgical operation, his patient's insides yielded a number of colored balloons, a string of sausages, and finally a Punch & Judy show. As a washerwoman by a stream, he was interrupted, for no ascertainable reason, by the passing - of an invisible fox hunt, but returned to the amorous contemplation of a union suit. Time & again he was a citizen of a never-never land as fantastical as that inhabited by Krazy...