Word: impostor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Included in the exhibition are the famous Athenaeum paintings of George and Martha Washington. Of them spoke John Neal in the Atlantic Monthly (1868), saying: "If Washington should return to life and stand side by side with the portrait and not resemble it he would be called an impostor." Also included are the portraits of the first five Presidents, painted on mahogany panels planned to resemble the texture of canvas; the first painting ever done by Stuart (at the age of 12); the alleged last painting he ever did (of Mrs. John Forrester); that of Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry...
Many were the women, young and old, and men, too, who tried to look like Congressmen's relatives. One impostor actually succeeded in looking like Representative Parks of Arkansas, and was taken aloft...
Finally there arrived in Berlin from Copenhagen the Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, sister of Nicholas II. Having visited the young woman, the Grand Duchess Olga formed an opinion which she still holds and was at pains to cable to Manhattan last week. It is summed up by the ejaculation, "Impostor!" At Copenhagen this view is known to be held by the 80-year-old Dowager Tsarina Maria Feodorovna (TIME, March 28, 1927), consort of the late Tsar Alexander III, mother of Nicholas...
...more welcome in the U. S. than Her Imperial Highness, Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest and most vivacious daughter of the last murdered Tsar of all the Russias. Unfortunately a young woman who landed from the Berengaria, last week, claiming to be Anastasia, was believed to be almost certainly an impostor...
...Though denounced as an impostor, he stays married, because he is so handsome...