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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many French Canadians were asking that sort of question. In the cities, Quebeckers have always been proud of the purity of their tongue; they bristle when English-speaking visitors call it a patois. Once.it seemed that improved communications (newspapers, the radio and movies) would flatten out regional differences brought by the settlers from Normandy and Brittany, Aunis and He de France. Instead, better communications sped corruption of the language, mainly by "barbarous" Anglicisms...
...sort of miser, Stephen Girard spent millions bolstering the U.S. Government during the War of 1812. He lent President Monroe $40,000 to pay off his personal debts, helped Joseph Bonaparte set up a court in exile, dribbled away thousands to anyone with a hard-luck story. When he died in 1831, the childless old man left $6,000,000 to found a school for fatherless boys...
...enemies call him a great old ham actor, a sort of Monty Woolley of art; his cronies bedeck his name with legends, most of which center around his prowess in pub and boudoir. They say that he is descended from gypsies and hint that he has lived a wild, free, gypsy life. His friends point out that he has always been an intense family man (he has had nine children), that he succeeded as a painter through hard labor, and never ceases struggling to improve his art (frequently overworking his larger pictures). A less friendly tale has it that...
Most of John's portraits on exhibition last week shared a quality that went beyond his sharp eye and skilled, sensitive hand. They had warmth. Even the portrait of Governor Fuller, who was hardly John's sort, showed that the artist's heart, as well as his art, had been called into play. In his autobiography, the old man, looking back, decides that "Love is a vagrant and when we revisit the tents, we find the gypsies gone and nothing left of them but a few rags and the black circles of their fires." John...
...With all this game-time behind us, we should have no trouble developing a first class team if we can arrange for a practice cage of some sort and get the use of some nearby ponies--possibly from one of the local riding clubs...