Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...starting point of what was described as the greatest gold shipment of all time. Two billions in bullion, one-third of all the gold in the land, began to move 1,440 mi. to the U. S. Mint at Denver. And 1,796 mi. farther east, beneath a huge portrait of Benjamin Franklin in his big new Washington office, sat the bald-headed man who was morally, physically and financially responsible for the fabulous shipment. By law it was up to Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley to get the Government's gold from mint door to mint door intact...
...thousand more Chinese made bedlam as General Tsai was driven through narrow Chinatown streets plastered with his portrait in vivid yellows and greens. "There never was anything like it!" said Detective Daniel Devoti of the Chinatown squad. "They are giving General Tsai a bigger welcome than they gave 37 years ago to the great Viceroy Li Hung- chang...
Although Liszt was at work on some of his best compositions before 1847 most of his time was devoted to piano recitals. Everywhere but in England, which disapproved of Countess d'Agoult, he was an idol. Women wore his portrait on cameos, went wild over him, He was the first, the greatest of pianists. He was making approximately $60,000 a year, owned 60 waistcoats, 360 cravats...
...halftone process of reproducing photographs; and Miss Delia Van Houten, 74; in Nyack, N. Y. Mr. Horgan made his first newspaper halftone, a picture of Manhattan, for the defunct Daily Graphic in 1880. In 1924 he was the first man to telegraph a color photograph, a three-color portrait of Rudolph Valentino...
Cinemaddicts who failed to understand this antique joke will not be historically enlightened by Twentieth Century's brief biography of the greatest goldsmith of the 16th Century. It exhibits Cellini only once in his studio and even then he works without enthusiasm. It is a portrait of him in his spare time, not as the artist but as the medieval playboy, dashing, sly and consecrated to misconduct. Magnificently acted by Frank Morgan, Fredric March and Constance Bennett, directed with delicacy by Gregory La Cava, The Affairs of Cellini is an uproarious and gracefully ribald costume play, rarely informative but almost...