Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weapon used by Charlotte Corday to murder Jean Paul Marat...
Artistically, the show's most impressive items were the Houdon portrait busts of Franklin, Voltaire, Lafayette and John Paul Jones, and an allegorical engraving of Franklin's genius by Jean Honore Fragonard. Paintings began with Harvard's stiff, colonial portrait of Franklin at about the age of 42, attributed to the early New England painter, Robert Feke. A studious characteristic pose was that of the famed "thumb portrait," done in London...
David Martin as a gift for Franklin's family when the subject was 61. Franklin specified the thumb on chin, made no objection to the warts (see cut). Ten years later Jean Baptiste Greuze made him elderly and dignified in a fur collar and fine blue velvet coat to match his eyes...
...year-olds are endowed with adult minds and motives, a situation producing an unusual potency in the pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas tree and the party going on around it. The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (RKO). A decorative dunderhead (Jean Arthur) who writes detective stories has a habit of dragging her surgeon-husband (William Powell; into real-life murder mysteries. When they are divorced she tries to get him back by entangling him in still another mystery, involving the murders of a jockey, a trainer and a crooked gambler...
Competently acted, The Ex-Mrs. Bradford's humor derives chiefly from the sight of Jean Arthur smashing a plaster skull and a large vase over William Powell's head, from a morgue scene in which Actor Powell lifts the dead jockey's arm into view, asks his assistant to give him a hand. "You've already got one," says the assistant...