Word: copley
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That night, at a state dinner in Boston's Copley-Plaza Hotel, the General surreptitiously flipped an olive pit at his two married daughters, blew kisses, beamed happily at his wife. But as he rose to speak -still wearing his pistol-tears rolled down his cheeks and his high, thin voice grew almost inaudible. He sat down after less than five minutes, put a big handkerchief to his face. Then he lighted a big cigar...
Definitely the story of the year is F. X. Hayes' own description of his gummed-up experiences of last Saturday night, at the Copley Plaza no less. Worth the cost of admission at any price, no one should leave these regions without hearing how Frankie caught the eye (and hand) of local "society...
...Bradford, Copley, Kenmore, Pioneer, and Statler announced a large number of doubles only. After these there are only multiple and dormitory arrangements to be had at the Beaconsfield, Commander, and Statler...
...Founded in 1805, after more than a dozen years of urgent petitions and civic meetings engineered by Charles Willson Peale, most popular American portrait painter of his time (post-Copley, pre-Stuart and Trumbull). An insatiable art lover, Philadelphia's Peale gave his children such names as Raphaelle, Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian. He painted portraits of most of the Founding Fathers, including some 60 studies of Washington. At his avocation as jeweler, Peale also fashioned for General Washington the wooden false teeth which caused the well-known shrunken cheeks of the Stuart portraits...
...scholarly catalogue to go with his show, Director Gordon Washburn caused a few lifted eyebrows by flatly asserting his own preference for the independent U.S. artists of the past. He also pooh-poohed tradition by insisting that the best of Copley, Stuart and Trumbull was their early work - before British influence affected them...