Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living persons who have received the Order include David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of England during the last war; Augustus John, one of the world's outstanding portrait painters; and Professor Gilbert Murray, eminent Greek scholar and active in the League of Nations. Whitehead, the most recently honored, is an author and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, shepherding a group of women reporters through the White House, showed them, in the President's study, a full-length portrait of herself, done by a man who had seen her just twice?at parties, years ago. Mrs Roosevelt, who never poses for portraits, said the painting was so extremely pretty she disliked it, added: "I would like to burn it some day, and I probably shall...
...Patrick has been faithful, too, in his representation of fighting men. Instead of falling into the fallacious techniques of such productions as "The Eve of Saint Mark," where the speech and thoughts of the men were involved only with the war, he has drawn a portrait of men who are embarrassed, ashamed to discuss battle and its ugly overtones...
...Including a portrait of E. H. Sothern, as he appeared in the 1901 production of If I Were King, by Artist John Barrymore...
Julian Karell (Nils Asther) appears at first blush to be no scientist at all, but merely a London artist of the 19303 who paints such a conventionally fashionable portrait of his socialite fiancée (Helen Walker) that some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead...