Word: swooping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...past half-century, School-of-Paris art has been an international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...
...said: "I'm in no condition to talk to anyone." In many big cities the census takers had to call in interpreters to get their information. There would probably be more difficulty next week when contingents of male enumerators observe T (for transient) night, and descend in one swoop on the inhabitants of flophouses, skid roads and missions...