Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entire bottle of ginger ale had been prankishly poured on a beautiful chair upholstered in brocaded silk. An arm had been chipped from a bit of statuary Mme Clore had brought from Italy. A moustache had been pencilled on the lip of her late husband's oil portrait. Seven glasses were broken. Three spoons were missing. The second maid had been seduced. The cook had quit. "The press had been entertained...
Despite Ethan Allen's blustering exploits, no real portrait or likeness of him is known to exist. Last week was posted a $250 reward for such a picture by Walter Butler Mahony, publisher and editor of the North American Review and John Pell, associate editor, Allen biographer, scion of the family that has owned the Fort Ticonderoga site for more than a century. Explained Mr. Pell...
...researches disclose, there is no authentic, portrait in existence and no exact description of his appearance. The statues in the national capital and in the Vermont State House were posed by Ethan's nephew...
...This Is London (Fox). When Will Rogers is performing as an impediment in the insipid romance of his supposed son and a pretty English girl, and when, with his screen wife, he is giving a portrait of domestic felicity among the middleaged, his efforts to be engaging in a homely, honest way are strangely and uncharacteristically saccharine. Owen Davis is said to have written the dialog for this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth...
Death alone can put a President on a postage stamp. Last week the Post Office Department announced that a portrait of William Howard Taft would appear early this month on all 4¢ stamps, replacing Martha Washington. The first First Lady will not be completely ousted from the mails because her likeness will continue to appear on the reply half of the 2¢ business postal card. (George Washington is on the address half.) The new Taft portrait will be that of the corpulent twenty-seventh President of the U. S., not of the leaner tenth Chief Justice...