Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senate isolationists voted not to confirm the Republican 7 2-year-oldster, when Franklin Roosevelt called him in to recreate the Army-at that time (June 1940) under 300,000 men. There were officers who looked up at his old-fashioned portrait in the Munitions Building (painted when he was Secretary under Taft), and shook their heads at the ancient's return. Stimson ignored the Senators, soon brought his officers up short...
Wolfe's crowded and tumultuous sen tences shape themselves naturally into rhapsodic verses. Most ambitious poem in the collection is the eleven-page This Is Man, a portrait of the human creature whom "it is impossible to scorn." More winning are the lyrics about the seasons and the weather and their way with man on the earth he loves...
...Carravaggios, Profane Love and David with Goliath's Head; Gauguin's The Green Man, and Bronzino's Eleanor of Aragon. Pieter Breughel's Amsterdam under the Snow is priced at $14,850; Bronzino's Venus and Cupid at $13,750; Antonio Moro's Portrait of a Man and a Manet still life, Flowers and Fruit, at $11,000 each...
Hedy Lamarr, in a pinafore, and Actor Husband John Loder, in sideburns for a movie role, posed with daughter Denise, not quite three months old, for a family portrait that looked like an illustration out of Anthony Trollope...
...Pont powder mill at 22½? an hour a short 20 years ago. Now he has a fortune of $7,000,000 and a show place in Newport. His admirers refer to him as "the emperor." (In the library of his Newport home hangs the David portrait of Napoleon...