Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loewenstein's winning oration was the conclusion to "The Impeachment of Warren Hastings" by Edmund Burke, while Sedgwick gave "Mother and Poet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Srole and Willis delivered the Rector's lecture to the schoolboys on the eternity of hell, from James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and "The Congo" by Vachel Lindsay, respectively...
...House library is capacious and attractive. It has a first rate collection of books of English literature, and a fairly good History section. When the Hopkinson portrait of President Lowell was first hung, however, students found it hard to concentrate. In glancing at the picture, they would become not a little disconcerted at the lack of buttonholes in the President's suit. But after a number of men had gone on probation, the portrait disappeared and later returned with the holes painted...
...Srole '33 will deliver the Rector's lecture to the school boys on the eternity of hell from "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" by James Joyce; Albert Allen '33, a selection from "Sticks and Stones" by Lewis Mumford; Charles Sedgwick '34, "Mother and Poet" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning; A. L. Gordon '34, "Address before the Suffolk Bar Association", February 5, 1885, by Oliver Wendell Holmes '61; M. f. Lowenstein '32, the conclusion to "The Impeachment of Warren Hastings" by Edmund Burke...
...well; William ("Billy") Mishkin, who expects to inherit a fortune in a few years; and a Manhattan sport named John Walker, were easily persuaded to be revealed as Metropolitan spendthrifts. Mayor Walker was not at all averse to posing at the piano as a postlude to the portrait of his cobbler. Other items in the first instalment of the Sobol newsreel were: a survey of the careers open to Follies girls, with three examples; a shot of the interior of a speakeasy, deleted by censors after one showing...
...concealing grace of tree and vine. The interior is fortunately a distinct improvement. Most of the rooms are comfortable and large enough; the Common Rooms (there are two) are small but dignified. The Dining Room is too large and elaborate for daily use. It is graced by the Sargent portrait of Eliot, and by the Agassiz Inter-House Crew Cup. The Library, which is an admirable selection in a handsome and comfortable room, is probably the most distinctive feature of Eliot. Yet to the consternation of all it was discovered at the end of several months that it contained...