Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women, he would say without ceremony: 'Why don't you take walks?' and to men with red necks: 'Why don't you bathe? You'll get apoplexy. Go for walks! Bathe!' " When he became displeased with Gladstone, "he took [Gladstone's] portrait, called his wife and children, and Gladstone, framed and glazed, was taken in solemn procession to the W.C. and hung up there...
...first time all the secretaries. He was pleased. This year with Mrs. Holmes gone, a birthday dinner after the radio broadcast would have taxed his strength. The Young Fellows came a week later, went together to his house. All had joined in commissioning Artist Charles Hopkinson to paint his portrait this summer at his home at Beverly Farms, Mass. They hope to have the painting hung in the Supreme Court...
Dominating character in Green Hell is Alexander Siemel. Duguid paints a respectful portrait of him, gives some account of his early life. A Russian, Siemel worked as a printer on a Buenos Aires newspaper, left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother...
...rival and townsman, Anna Seward is remembered better for her life than for her works. Her poems describing the explorations and exploits of Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
...great Wall Street novel is Customers' Man by Boyden Sparkes, published last week by Frederick A. Stokes Co. ($1.50). But in swift-moving, unadorned narrative style it sets forth a good portrait of a Customers' Man of the Coolidge era. Before publication, the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange had pamphlet copies privately printed for their own reading. To them the subject is especially interesting, for since the Crash of 1929 the Exchange has done much to lessen the evils of which Mr. Sparkes writes. Customers' Man Robert Loomis had a pleasing personality...