Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait decorations on TIME covers are a splendid asset to the publication. They give . . . subscribers an almost complete collection of distinguished present day celebrities...
...callers come from foreign lands, they enter the great limestone Italian Renaissance library through its bronze doors, climb a flight of stairs, see a bronze bust of Dr. Welch on the landing, climb on to the second floor and in the Great Hall see John Singer Sargent's portrait of the Four Founders-a huge canvas glowing with rich reds, symbolical of a great nation's medical cornerstone...
Movieland is a thinly-disguised portrait of Hollywood: a series of cinematic, lavishly colored scenes strung together on the thinnest thread of plot-a revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death...
...years since her death it has lain neglected in a safe-deposit vault, some of the papers found only recently in an old clothes hamper. It is with the support of this important collection that Authors Hum and Root have undertaken to deface Wagner's self-portrait, creating in its stead one of a mean, unscrupulous, supremely arrogant person; one which comes as no surprise to the unprejudiced Wagnerian. In so doing they point darkly at the dying lady at Bayreuth, accuse her of influencing Wagner, even of distorting facts herself for the sake of proving Minna a shrewish...
...occasion of his portrait by Charles Hopkinson being presented to Harvard Law School, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court (Harvard, 1861) wrote: ". . . my emotions, were I to be present at the presentation of the portrait, would be embarrassing, but fortunately for my composure I cannot leave Washington. I feel very deeply the great honor you do me . . . which seems to make the culmination of my life and to leave me to say, 'and now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace...