Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt came there, the White House's most energetic mistress had been Dolly Madison. She furnished the executive mansion with fine gilt chairs built in France, had the good sense to hide the Lansdowne portrait of Washington and fly to Virginia when the British invaded Washington. But when the British left, Dolly Madison came back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion...
...Blood of a Poet (Jean Cocteau). A young man engaged in painting a portrait is suddenly disturbed to find, in the palm of his hand, a surprising deformity: two human lips which engage him in a fragmentary conversation. The young man succeeds in transferring these lips to a statue of a young woman, who advises him to walk through a mirror. Having done so, the young man finds himself in the Hotel des Folies Dramatiques where, peeking through keyholes, he witnesses a horrid scene between an old lady and a child whom she is teaching to fly. When he emerges...
...eschewing the word research, maintained that, "Far from being detrimental to teaching, diligent and incessant study, was an indispensable requisite to it. This he took as axiomatic and spent no time talking about it." In form, this is a book of reminiscences; it is a sentimental document, the clear portrait of a great teacher. But it is more than that. It is a primer, an object lesson, in college teaching, and in the debt which is the college professor's to his community. Mr. Keller's thin volume belongs on the desk of every man who claims an interest...
...material Author Robert Haven Schauffler traveled around Europe, talked with 150 people who had known Brahms, among them his hitherto reticent Viennese housekeeper. An expert 'cellist. Author Schauffler gives a sound analysis of Brahms's music but his book's big contribution is the masterly human portrait...
...wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen's wife deplored: "Cyclones . . . are certainly to be found in Kansas, but why must Mr. Curry paint these freakish subjects? His self-portrait shows . . . a boyhood that has only seen the most sordid conditions of life...