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Word: portraited (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columnist Franklin P. Adams. His publishers consider him one of their best-looking authors. Though he has already published five books (others: Woodrow Wilson, John D., A Portrait in Oils, Morgan the Magnificent, Incredible Carnegie), the melodies of the city desk still throb inside his head, with the result that Author Winkler's journalese is indistinguishable from the guarded patois written in Hearstpapers all over the U. S. In The First Billion he writes of Stanford White's "mortal death," burlesques Stillman, himself and the English language in the same breath: "Something about the repose, the quiet self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Banker Bogey | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

...plump, mean, small-town manufacturer who also has a low opinion of evening clothes, servants and most of the amenities. When the play opens, he seems much less devoted to his charming family than to two pieces of bric-a-brac in the living room: a hideous crayon portrait of his day-laborer father and an oversized spittoon. The little comedy, which Song-&-Danceman Eddie Dowling chose for his first Broadway presentation in three years, shows how certain trivial experiences improve the character of Herbert Kalness. When the patrician parents of his daughter's Harvard fiancé dine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

David G. Lyon, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, Emeritus, and Honorary Curator of the Semitic Museum, was honored Saturday by the hanging of his portrait among the founders of the Museum. The painting, an anonymous gift from his former pupils and friends, was done by the well-known Boston artist, Theresa F. Bernstein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LYON HONOURED | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

Please make appointments as soon as possible with Notman's Studio, telephone University 3273, for individual photographs for the 1934 Senior Album. The Album picture itself will cost $1, and the regular prices will be charged for any extra copies of the usual portrait size...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL SENIORS | 1/10/1934 | See Source »

Tallest in the World. Near Dictator Stalin as he talked was Dictator Lenin's death mask in a glass case and opposite him a life-size portrait of "Ilyich1'- orating to proletarians. Near the death mask hung an architect's drawing of the Palace of the Soviets, most grandiose project to be attempted under Russia's present Second Five-Year Plan. Though young Hector 0. Hamilton, a British architect of East Orange, N. J., won $2,000 with his design for the Palace of Soviets Dictator Stalin later scrapped Mr. Hamilton's plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stalin to Duranty | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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