Word: flemish
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...time he painted Le Lorgneur, probably in 1716, Watteau was in his early 30s. Behind him lay an arduous apprenticeship to a Flemish painter in his native Valenciennes and his early struggles as a starving artist in Paris. Then two paintings of French army-camp scenes won him associate membership in the Royal Academy, and the greatest French collector of his time, Pierre Crozat, made room for Watteau in his own house...
...story on "How to Hunt Big Game," commissioned a French explorer to write his story of an Amazon trip, "I Starved with the World's Most Primitive Tribe." The magazine's lavish color pages, planned by Art Editor Albert Gilou, sometimes achieve the lustrous clarity of a Flemish painting, are equaled by only one other publication in Europe: Switzerland's sophisticated...
Turning Life to Account. Originally Flemish, the Malraux family were for 300 years shipbuilders at Dunkirk. André Malraux's grandfather was a fierce little man who for 22 years attended Mass kneeling on the ground outside, in rain or wind, because of a quarrel with the church authorities. He had a prejudice against insurance, and when a storm sank his whole fishing fleet off Newfoundland, the Malraux family fortune was wiped out. André was brought up by his mother, who ran a small grocery shop in a Paris suburb...
...building for bargaining sessions in the big fifth-floor conference room. Late each night they left again with no word of progress. G.M. Negotiator Louis Seaton, director of labor relations, printed and passed out to the press a card in Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German and Flemish. The words meant the same in all six languages: "No comment." At week's end, after a final bargaining spurt, the settlement was announced. Like Ford, G.M. accepted the principle of G.A.W. and on the same scale of benefits: four weeks of layoff pay at 65% of normal take-home wages (including...
...institution they belong to is the highly visionary College of Europe. The college was born at the 1948 Congress of Europe in The Hague. There, Salvador de Madariaga, onetime Spanish Ambassador to the U.S., suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city"). In 1949 an experimental, three-week course began; in 1950 its founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor...