Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from firewater and long-distance telephones, his chief extravagances, to allow him pocket money. From the Saskatchewan Government Grey Owl receives $75 a month as a warden, from lectures he receives up to $500 apiece, and he has a fortune estimated at $50,000. He has also had his portrait done by Britain's fashionable painter, Sir John Lavery...
...Federal Writers' Project began its monumental task of giving the U. S. a more up-to-date "detail portrait of itself" in August 1935, when WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins picked a bespectacled, slow-speaking ex-lawyer, ex-newspaperman, ex-publicity agent, Henry Alsberg, as national director. The survivor of a helter-skelter career that included editorial writing on the New York Post, a year as secretary to the U. S. Ambassador to Turkey before the War, a post-War job as the Nation's foreign correspondent, a term as director of the Provincetown Theatre, Director Alsberg started...
...Self-Portrait in a Checked Sweater: probably the best portrait ever made of George Gershwin...
...been recognized that the best cartoon effects are not to be got from animals acting like animals, but from animals acting like people. Mickey Mouse, of course, looked like a human from the start. He has the large soft eyes and pointed face of his creator. Occasionally another portrait creeps into the company. In character and appearance, Max Hare very much resembles clownish Heavyweight Max Baer...
...condemnation of Section XII. Said the Nation: "The Herald Tribune has got away with the publication of paid propaganda at a nice profit. The money that swelled its advertising revenue came out of the hide of an oppressed nation...." To which New Republic added: "It is a portrait which everyone informed about the situation in Cuba knows to be fantastically remote from the truth." The advertising director of the New York Times, in a confidential memorandum to his staff, which was picked up and reprinted by the Guild Reporter, recognized the moral obloquy involved in Section XII, also reported that...