Church bells were already ringing, to announce the Armistice in November 1918, when word reached Wilfred Owen’s family that he had been killed in battle one week before. (4)
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Picasso made Gertrude Stein sit more than eighty times for her portrait. 
And then painted out the head and redid it three months later without having seen her again. (5)
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Pablo Casals began each day for more than seventy years by playing Bach. (6)
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