Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with the Panorama is the Cyclorama, a single long painting in which one place or event merges into the next. Examples: the famed Pantheon of the War (402 ft. by 43 ft.) done by aged & infirm French painters, now in Chicago (see above); Battle of Gettysburg (404 ft. by 72 ft.), by Paul Philippoteoux, also in Chicago...
Died, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse, 82, French painter, Sevres porcelain art director; of old age; in Paris. He conceived the Wartime chore for aged & infirm French painters of painting the famed patriotic cyclorama, Pantheon...
...Manhattan's Surrogate Court last week were held the last five hearings on the claim of Thomas Patrick Morris, 52, infirm Scottish housepainter of Brooklyn, to the $30,000,000 fortune of the late, eccentric Ella von Echtzel Wendel. Miss Wendel, last of her line, kept a succession of poodles named Tobey in a fabulously valuable side yard adjoining her lower Fifth Avenue home. She died last year leaving all her money to charity. Claimant Morris, one of some 1,800 less enterprising aspirants to the fortune, maintained that...
...Schodack, N. Y. Mrs. Elizabeth Rhoda, 102, was too infirm to go out and vote for Hoover. The President wrote her: "I am deeply touched. . . . I will take the will for the deed." ¶ As a little girl Mrs. George Carleton Beal, 75, of Manhattan, once sat in Abraham Lincoln's lap. Since then she has always voted straight Republican. Said she: "But I'm for Roosevelt this time. What I want is a man of action. . . ." ¶ Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, declared for Hoover: ''This is no time to make over human society...
...Behind them came automobiles bearing 350 more veterans too infirm to parade. Elected G. A. R. Commander-in-Chief for the coming year was 83-year-old William P. Wright, Chicago realtor. In 1865 Commander Wright captained Co. D of the 156th Illinois Volunteer Infantry...