Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's exhibition was notable for the number of human figure studies it included, and for the rarity of a Marin portrait: Myself in Wonder...
...student thanked her and went in. The first painting was a portrait of a matador. One eye was green and the other was orange. The student turned to the bric-a-brac. There was a woman's show, a brick, and a twisted piece of iron. On a table across the room was a pamphlet, and the student walked over, laying odds that it was one of Gertrude Stein's little jobs. He picked it up and read the title, "Annual Report of the President to the Board of Overseers of Harvard University...
...editorials. Every member of the Chamber of Representatives rose in his seat at word that Herbert Hoover had crossed the frontier. Dinners and receptions were held by the Foreign Office, the University of Louvain, the College of Burgomasters and Aldermen. The Belgian Government issued a new stamp, bearing the portrait of the late great King Albert, but dedicated to Herbert Hoover...
...Papanin floe. It was joined by another icebreaker, the Murman, which had come up fast while the Taimyr was beating its channel through the pack. Eighty men swarmed out of the two ships, started for the floe on sleds. They were met by the joyful scientists, who carried a portrait of Joseph Stalin. All their equipment was transferred to the Taimyr. After drawing lots to decide which ship should have the honor of carrying which heroes home to glory. Leader Papanin and Radio Operator Krenkel boarded the Murman, Astronomer-Magnetologist Fyodorov and Hydrobiologist Shirshov, the Taimyr. Which ship...
...years out of college, were frantically putting together the first issue of the first newsmagazine. A few days earlier someone had remembered that a magazine must have a cover, and an artist had been commissioned to design one. He submitted only a rough sketch. On both sides of a portrait there was to be an elaborate arrangement of sundials, hourglasses, other time-symbols. To suggest the general idea, the artist had sketched in some "spinach." Uncertain about the symbols, the editors decided to use the spinach as a stopgap. Except for minor alterations and the addition of a red border...