Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collector Frick paid more attention to the advice of experts than to his own taste but he did have a weakness for portraits. Two interested critics particularly. In the Oval room, flanked by Whistlers, hangs one of the greatest works of the world's greatest society portraitist-Velasquez's portrait of Philip IV" of Spain in a rose coat. This picture cost Frick $475,000. Round the corner hangs another portrait by another great countryman who for a time tried to paint in a way Velasquez did later, not realizing that he had spiritual gifts far greater than...
...succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have an excellent chance to win. Her small, earnest oval face set in serious lines, Mrs. Vare leaned over her ball, tapped it with her putter. When it dropped into the cup, she smiled, walked over to shake hands...
...footballers forced out of bounds. Thereupon, the moat was turned into a cinder track whose unusual depth of ballast surprised one & all by providing a remarkably springy surface. Thus an accident accounts for what many a runner considers the world's fastest track, a smooth, black 440-yd. oval on which in the past two years two successive world's records for the mile have been...
...last of three parades, "a spectacular pageant of floats with crews of dancing girls and actors." ¶ Next press conference after the one at which he delivered a message to the nation on the Constitution (TIME, June 10) President Roosevelt had a record attendance: 345 newshawks, crowding into his oval air-cooled office hoping for more sensations. Instead, he amiably discussed the business of burying the Blue Eagle's carcass (see p. 15). As he talked it became evident that the White House air-conditioning system had not been planned to take care of 345 perspiring visitors. Finally...
...picture every schoolboy knows, the great Raphael's oval Madonna of the Chair, has hung for centuries on the wall of Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael...