Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...racket of imposing upon Harvard families can only be stopped by individual precautions; such crimes as portrait slashings, which can only be the work of an insane man, are impossible to foresee and almost as difficult to trace, while their prevention involves procedure far too impractical. In a similar way, any further measures to protect the treasures of libraries and museums must unavoidably entail "red tape" which may even outweigh the saving. Yet the point of least loss and inconvenience can only be reached after experimentation towards both extremes. Present regulations have apparently proved unsatisfactory; a period of stricter protective...
...Stanford University's track team (see p. 28) who, stopping at the Ritz-Carlton across the street, stood out on the sidewalk to see their alma mater's potent trustee (see p. 36). At the Union League dinner the President was presented with a life-sized portrait of himself (see cut) painted last summer by Greek Artist Pilides Costa. In an extemporaneous speech of thanks President Hoover declared: "It is difficult for me to express with my natural-I hope natural-modesty that it gives one pleasure to see oneself portrayed in a better fashion than the normal...
...sore grief. Thereupon Fascist youths gathered around the Catholic Students Association House, hurled stones, broke windows even as high as the fifth floor. Other irate Fascists mobbed a Catholic publishing house, hurled from its windows copies of the best-selling book Papa (The Pope). Wrenching from the wall a portrait of II Papa they dashed it from window to pavement crying: "Here is a traitor to his country...
Upon the prostrate portrait of His Holiness, the Fascist youths stamped, tramped. Italian police, present by this time in large numbers, made no arrests but gradually, persuasively dispersed the tramplers. Next day it was known that Il Duce had frowned an awful frown upon such hot deeds. But high words continued in the press...
...portrait of Isidor Straus, which hangs in the Common Room of Straus Hall, was seriously mutilated by an act of vandalism some time over the weekend, it was discovered yesterday afternoon. A piece about two inches square was cut from the face of the portrait...