Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner was King Alexander murdered than all the people of Yugoslavia began wondering who would be chosen to execute the official memorial to him. Sculptor Mestrovic will do a heroic statue for the family tomb at Oplenatz. Painter Vanka has already finished the portrait...
...sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
...preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief in, and no comprehension of, the patriotic rant they scream at one another. It is small wonder that Mr. O'Casey's unflattering portrait of Dublin Irishmen in the nation's darkest hour caused a riot when it was first produced...
...Portraits and Prayers, a collection of 58 pieces which date from 1909 to 1933, is pure Stein. A gallery of word-portraits of Stein friends and acquaintances, it is mostly concerned with literary and artistic figures: Cézanne, Matisse, Picasso, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Van Vechten (to whom the book is dedicated), Sherwood Anderson, Jo Davidson, Edith Sitwell et al. Persevering readers may puzzle long to discover whether these portraits are flattering or otherwise; presumably they are as objective as Author Stein can make them. The reader who wins to p. 105 will discover a portrait...
...readers will wander through hopeless mazes before they find another such straightforward stretch. More typical is the "Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia": "The days are wonderful and the nights are wonderful and the life is pleasant. Bargaining is something and there is not that success. The intention is what if application has that accident results are reappearing. They did not darken. That was not an adulteration...