Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most charming piece: Self-Portrait with Heart, Frida's record of a period of unhappiness with Diego, showing her with tears on her cheeks, a ferrule sticking through the hole in her body where her heart was, two tiny imps playing seesaw on the ferrule. Political bit: a full-length portrait of Frida holding a scroll inscribed: "To Leon Trotsky, with all love, I dedicate this painting, 7 November...
...portrait of Justice Brandeis '77, honorary A. M. '91, who celebrates his eighty-second birthday next Sunday, will be unveiled next Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the Court Room of Langdell Hall in the presence of members of the law school's Faculty and student body, friends and relatives of the justice, representatives of the Law School Association, and members...
...donors of the portrait are friends of the justice, most of them alumni of the law school. The artist is Eben F. Comins, of Washington, who will be present at the ceremonies...
After the ceremonies the portrait will be transferred to the Reading Room in Langdell Hall, where it will hang opposite the portrait of Justice Holmes...
...Start of the Road is a novelized version of Whitman's stay in New Orleans in 1848. John Erskine pictures Whit man falling in love with an intelligent, Paris-educated quadroon, who bears his son. Inconsequential and not very convincing, the book gives an easy, informal portrait of Whitman, sketches of other historic figures, but is enriched with fine savory quotations from Whitman's poems which bring it to life when its story grows labored...