Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size of the armholes of the Governor of Massachusetts' coat). But her life of Paul Revere is: 1) a levelheaded account of Boston's part in the American Revolution; 2) an engaging slide lecture on colonial and early republican life in New England; 3) a lengthy portrait gallery of revolutionists like Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren, Tory Governor Thomas Hutchinson...
Said one officer last week: "There must be something intriguing about the word camouflage. We have at least 200 times as many applicants as we have jobs to offer in the military service. These include everything from famous portrait painters and sculptors to sign painters and advertising specialists. It only gums up the works and causes a serious loss of time. There is no room for the esthetic color expert, or for any man who can't march 20 miles a day carrying a full pack, in the military camouflage unit...
...George Andrew Reisner, 74, famed Harvard Egyptologist; in Gizeh, Egypt. He discovered the tomb of Queen Hetep-heres, mother of Cheops, uncovered the first rich evidences of the civilization of the Fourth Dynasty. In 1911 he announced his answer to the "riddle of the Sphinx," identified it as a portrait of Chephren, Fourth Dynasty Pharaoh...
...Tokio Kid was the brain changeling of two Douglas artists, Jack Campbell and Harry Bailey. At present, Campbell is the Kid's sole portrait painter. Campbell was a member of the 40th Engineering Camouflage Division during World War I, is an alumnus of the Disney studio. He is slim, swarthy, long-toothed, usually smiling, wears glasses when he works, bears a certain resemblance...
Except for an occasional water-fight, spring was marked by the absence of the usual undergraduate pranks. Only one or two, such as the replacement of President Lowell's portrait with that of a "Goya girl," in Lowell House, provided contrast to the grim business-like atmosphere...