Word: portait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were ten speakers in Sanders Theatre who made short addreses to President Eliot. Among them was Charlton MacVeagh, the then President of the CRIMSON, who spoke for the students and presented at that time to the University as a gift from the students the Hopkinson portait of Dr. Eliot now hanging in the Faculty Room at University Hall. We quote two paragraphs from this speech...
Certain M.P.'s were astonished to find a portait of Lady Astor by the renowned artist, Sims, hanging on the wall by the House of Commons staircase. This picture shows the first lady M.P. being introduced into Parliament by ex-Premiers Arthur Balfour (now Lord Balfour) and David L. George. In the Distinguished Stangers' Gallery are seated, with appreciative smiles, Lord Astor and John W. Davis, erstwhile U. S. Ambassador to Britain, now Democratic nominee for the Presidency of the U. S. Strange murmurs were heard among the masculine members of the House. One hundred...
...discovered about Lenin, more theories will be promulgated and many more volumes will be writen. He is, and will be, seen as a narrow-minded demagogue as well as an extraordinary leader and statesman; as a fiend incarnate as well as a glorious martyr. But a very faithful, impartial portait of the great revolutionist may be found in Mr. Levine's biography...
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