Word: mask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East. Long estranged too, and querulously jealous of his own health at 93, Father Rockefeller had not gone to see her at all. "He travels only between Florida and his home," John D. Jr. explained. In her last days, with the flesh fallen from her face and the death mask showing. Edith Rockefeller had come to resemble her father closely...
...September issue of Life bears on its cover a caricature mask of Franklin Delano Roosevelt affixed to the sitting body of a boy doll. Between the doll's outspread feet is a pie, upon which rests what might be an apple or a tomato. Caption: "Let's See What a Good...
Artist Epstein, who has taken the name Abner Dean, made the Roosevelt mask. A doll was bought from Macy's. Christmas pies being out of season, a strawberry pie was substituted and a plum from an unemployed fruit vendor. At the plant of Powers Engraving Co. the group was posed against a yellow cardboard background before a color camera. Four exposures were made, one for each cardinal color, one for the black, upon transparent plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came...
With Sir John's pink face a mask of innocence, Mr. Davis hotly declared: 1) that the U. S. Delegates had refused to speak officially about debts to the British; 2) that they had refused to speak unofficially; 3) that when entreated by the British to give at least their private opinion on the attitude which U. S. public opinion, Congress or the President might be expected to take toward the Lausanne program* they had advised the British against taking any step resembling the gentleman's agreement or the Accord de Confiance...
Artist Grosz's picture of Christ on the Cross wearing a gas mask and Wellington boots (an illustration for the novel, Schweik the Good Soldier) got him and his publisher convicted of blasphemy in 1928. When Grosz explained he had meant only that Christ might have been conscripted in the German draft, they were acquitted...