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Referring to reports that he had visited a seaside resort: "I certainly was in Noordwyk-on-Sea with my wife, naturally with the consent of the Dutch Government. We visited Count Bentinck and my Adjutant, Ilseman. I did not play tennis, nor did I win a prize...
...Croton-on-Hudson. Visitors to the colony there did not see her. She remained in seclusion. Then, with no warning whatever, this writer of passionate, free, gayly cynical love poetry, abandoned Croton for the hospital and was at the same time married to Eugene Boissevain, a young importer of Dutch extraction who plays an excellent game of tennis, dances gracefully and seems to appreciate the arts. What effect this marriage will have upon the poetry of Miss Millay is a question for the psychologists to ponder and time to answer...
...activities of the ex-Emperor and ex-Crown Prince have become so energetic that the Dutch authorities are alarmed. Twice within a few weeks the Imperial German flag has been raised on Dutch soil, once over a seaside villa in which the ex-Kaiser was visiting, and again at Wieringen, when a yacht called Hohenzollern flew it on the occasion of a mysterious visit to the ex-Crown Prince...
...extraordinary Dutch theory about a British naval base...
...rarity, the qualities which give Vermeer's canvases their coveted value are their handling of light and color (his favorite tones were blue and lemon yellow), and a certain noble serenity of atmosphere that has never been surpassed. He painted chiefly genre pieces and" homely portraits of the Dutch bourgeosie, but has two known landscapes in Dutch galleries, and a Christ with Mary and Martha in the Coats collection, Glasgow. The Metropolitan has three Vermeers, including the Young Woman Opening a Casement in the Morgan collection, and the Sleeping Cook, in the Altman collection...