Word: watteaus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lecturers took whole platoons of sightseers through, speaking in sibilant whispers, and on the rim of every cluster gallerygoers jostled to see & hear. But no one could take in everything-the 15 Rembrandts, six Rubens, five Botticellis, the Bruegels, Vermeers, three Raphaels, five Jan van Eycks, five Titians, three Watteaus, the Holbeins, Diirers, Hals and the Velasquez...
...dazzlingly newfangled electric lights that gleamed on the first two floors. There was a fireplace in every living room, a gilded chamber pot under every bed, a brass cuspidor in every room. The washstands were marble, with brass legs; many a wall was hung with imitation Fragonards and Watteaus. The largest and best suite was set aside for Grover Cleveland. When Cleveland went to the White House in March 1885, the food for the inaugural ball was rushed to Washington by special train from the Murray Hill's kitchens...