Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...housed the worst criminals, showed the influence of Convict Instructor Peter J. Curtis, a onetime sign painter, who exhibited two grinning putty-faced crones called A Bit of Scandal and an aproned oldster taking snuff. Other pictures included a likeness of Abraham Lincoln, a Burial of Christ, romantic portraits of women, Indian scenes, dying Cossacks, pigeons, Chinese junks and a group portrait of the Dutch Royal Family...
...Club at the Academy of Medicine. Sole medical subject in the show was medical in name only-Vitamins, a composition of a lemon, oranges, a grapefruit, potatoes, filled whiskey and milk bottles, by Club Secretary Dr. Henry Amabric Bancel. Dr. Walter Beran Wolfe showed a polychromed terra cotta Self Portrait with black lips, a plaster pictorialization of his name which consisted of a bear with a W in his left paw astride a wolf. The latter he called a "glyptogram." Dr. Frank H. Netter had a courteous portrait of Dr. Charles Norris, New York's Chief Medical Examiner. Opthalmologist...
There Partner Felix Warburg, a carnation in his buttonhole, summons the eleven partners to conference punctually at 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On the wall of his office is a portrait of bushy old Solomon Loeb who retired one year after Otto Kahn, at 17, began his banking career in Germany as a stamp licker. There is the big white Georgian partners' room, heart of Kuhn, Loeb, where "people just roll in and roll out again." There Otto Kahn worked under his father-in-law, Partner Abraham Wolff. There he became a U. S. citizen during...
...name "Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims,'' with two ministers alternating in the pulpit, the new church will retain the building to which Henry Ward Beecher brought fame, dispose of the other. The name of the great preacher appeared patly in headlines. This week a full-sized portrait of him, his father and nine of his brothers and sisters is to be published by his grandnephew, Publicist Lyman Beecher Stowe. Called Saints, Sinners and Beechers* it expounds the fact that when the Beechers entered the Church they found it grimly Calvinistic and weighty with theology; by the time they...
...live is tattooed all over his body and married to a syphilitic harlot who haggles with her husband nightly over the price he must pay to sleep with her, that the youth marries the illegitimate daughter of a tattoo artist who destroys their connubial bliss by insisting her portrait be pricekd indelibly on her husband's left breast--these delightful details are merely the sauce of morbidity and unreality with which the main dish is seasoned, in order to increase the intensity of its flavour and heighton the effect of the final bitter, climax. The story ends: "Choster turned then...