Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eminent artist who is more interested in anthropology than art and who would rather converse about the ordinary enjoyments of life than about the technique of portrait work was revealed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday during the course of an interview with Augustus E. John, famous English portrait painter who was recently elected to the Royal Academy and who is now in Boston doing a portrait of Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts...
...CRIMSON reporter had anticipated an enthusiastic response to his reference to "The Green Jacket," but was astonished to find that Mr. John didn't seem to remember having done the picture...
...John, in fact, suspected that someone over here in the States had been doing a bit of business in his name. Upon being reassured that there actually was a "Green Jacket" with his name in the corner of it on display in a local gallery, he registered suspicion and expressed a desire...
...Justice, and Prime Minister Disraeli, but all are shown in positions neither dignified nor flattering. They were drawn for "Vanity Fair" by two cartoonists who called themselves "Ape" and "Spy." Proudly looking down on this "rogue's gallery" are oil portraits of Daniel Webster, of the class of 1804, John Marshall, Rufus Choate, of the class of 1845, and James Bradley Thayer, of the class of 1852, professor of Law from...
...Resolved, That the economic prosperity of the United States is unfavorable to its morals," is the subject of the debate with Amherst which is to be held at 8.15 o'clock tonight in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall...