Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conducts no course which would give us the benefit of his profound knowledge of the period of Cromwell and Charles II. It may be pertinent to observe that his general work, "The Expansion of Europe," which is neither so dull nor so momentous as the author of the alleged portrait supposes, enjoys a popularity in other countries, notably England, which is shared by very few other recent works of American historians. Altogether, it may be fairly said that, in his writings, as on the lecture platform, Professor Abbott's lack of brilliance is overbalanced by a worldly wisdom and common...
...Kweihwa. In a little valley they found it, an exquisite cluster of white Manchu buildings, gold-crested pinnacles, infested by bearded monks. They set up their fur yurts (tents) on the plain, capped themselves with full-dress peacock plumes and crowded into the council chamber. There under a portrait of the Panchen Lama sat Prince Teh Wang who for months has been trying to found a Pan-Mongolian self-rule movement. Despite their traditional suspicions of one another, Prince Teh Wang last week herded the princes into agreement. Between pinches of snuff they drew up a Confederation of Inner Mongolian...
East, published in Shanghai by the Shanghai Post-Mercury Co., edited by Joseph Coughlin who used to run the Carmel, Calif. Carmelite, is the "Newsweekly of the Orient." It copies TIME'S makeup, runs a brief department called "The Week in Miniature" as well as a portrait on the cover...
...further drawing card in the issue is the article, "Eddie Stands for Good Dean Sport," by John R. Tunis: This portrait of a Director of Athletics by the author of "Maguire, Builder of Men," is a bitingly sareastic caricature of that figure of the modern football world so familiar to the undergraduates who have brown to their estate in that era of Rackety-Rax athletics and sportsmanship. The sarcasm, however, never leads one to feel that truth has been sacrificed to the deed. "Eddie," of course, is a composite; his image is not applicable without qualification to all the Banghams...
...fact that fat, squashy Charles Laughton looks almost exactly like Holbein's portrait of Henry VIII is really a very trivial aid to this picture. Laughton gives all his impersonations a preternatural vitality and if he had happened to look otherwise, it would merely have seemed that Holbein had been inaccurate. The whole picture, directed by Alexander Korda, reflects the validity of his acting: it is a shiny, caustic, understanding portrait of a personage as comprehensible as he is extraordinary. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) does, next to her husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes...