Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture a bigoted ogre murdering free expression. If the more recent action had not been more obviously illogical and inconsistent with any intimate interest the University might be expected to have in price-control, the outside press might even now be adjusting its floodlights for a rogues' gallery portrait...
...sudden fury and rushed at me, screaming 'Saboteur, wrecker, rascal! Take this-and this!' His huge fists were crashing into my face like a couple of pistons." At last Kravchenko decided that he had had all he could stand. When no one was watching, he ripped a portrait of Stalin from the wall, tore it into shreds, flushed it down a toilet. "I listened to the gurgling of the water, and I knew that never, never again would I feel the same about the Party, the Leader, the Cause. . . . I would work for the government, I would accept...
Hayes thinks his comedy ideas are best expressed in his characterization of "Punchy Callahan"-a hilarious but touching portrait of an ex-pug, as shapeless, scuffed and unwanted as a worn-out boxing glove. Even after three weeks, busy Copacabana waiters still stop, look & listen to Punchy...
...long, liverish, open letter to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, Chicago's James T. Farrell, one of the most earnest authors and worst writers in the U.S., took issue with Canadian censorship. The reason: Ottawa had placed a ban on importation of his new novel, Bernard Clare, a lacklustre portrait of the artist as a young...
Queen Elizabeth in the black silk robes of a barrister (she rated them as an honorary bencher of the Middle Temple) looked moderately Portia-like, completely queenly, in a portrait by James Gunn. She gazed with perfect aplomb at visitors to the Royal Academy's summer show in London; later, barristers would gaze back at her, permanently on a Middle Temple wall...