Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Roosevelt was trying to sift these matters and to decide whether he should remove Sheriff Farley from office. High above the heads of the Tammany deathwatch, whose votes might mean the Governor's nomination and election to the Presidency this summer and next autumn, hung a portrait of Grover Cleveland, a New York Governor who bucked Tammany, went to the White House on the slogan: "Public Office is a Public Trust...
Last week, 2,000 unemployed War veterans, laborers and women swarmed into the Government Offices and broke a glass-framed portrait- over the head of Premier Sir Richard Anderson Squires...
...personality is portrayed in Donatello's St. John, and, in the Madonna that della Robbia has set against an infinite blue sky, we have the religious sincerity that survived the enthusiasm for pagan culture. The typical Italian devotion to children is nowhere more delightfully shown than in Desiderio's portrait...
...Lorenzo's brother as the victor in the great Tournament of 1475, the here of Politian's Stanze rejoicing in his youth and virile beauty. The tilt of the noble head, the pride of race stamped on the curling lips and firm-set jaw make this not only the portrait of a Medici but of the whole class of cultured despots. The delicate handling of the armor contrasts with and accentuates the direct, almost impressionistic modelling of the head. Versatility, even in an age of giants, is always amazing, and so it seems almost incredible that the same hand turned...
...page, are new on exhibition in the Treasure Room at the College Library. These include a Latin Lexicon, and a copy of "The Private Life of Lewis XV." Together with early biographies, there is also a copy of his diary, open at the following extract, which refers to a portrait new in Adams House: "Sat from ten to one o'clock for a Mr. Savage, to draw my portrait for the University of Cambridge, in the state of Massachusetts, at the request of the President and Governors of the said University...