Word: commander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Painter de Laszlo to inject these qualities into his portraiture, but they are by no means the only requirements for being a de Laszlo subject. You will also need $14,000 if you want a really first-rate product, full length, executed with all the Sargentesque splendor at his command. For $10,000 you can have a neat three quarter length affair, much on the order of the Hoover portrait which de Laszlo finished last week. For $3,000 he may consent to do a sketch, a little like the one of Mrs. Hoover, warm, sympathetic and technically graceful...
...made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item which had been set in type for that issue. Now and then he would snort angrily at the "injustice...
...historic tree on Garden Street fell to the ground on October 26, 1923. "There is no proof," says Jack, "That Washington either assumed command of the 'American Army' under the shade of this tree, or that he noticed it or cared for it; and there is certainly very much doubt with regard to the authenticity of the origin of some of the offerings made by professional nurserymen...
...possibility of a United States of Europe is in any way less remote now than it was a decade ago, the chief credit, among contemporary statesmen, probably goes to Aristide Briand. No matter what deviations the exigencies of politics produced, his career as a whole may justly command the gratitude of Europe...
...view of the circumstances, and, after asking God for celestial light, we have been led to determine and command, as we hereby do, as follows...