Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FROM the pen of one of England's foremost men of letters comes an "Excursion into Autobiography" more startling in its frankness and more comprehensive in its scope than any similar book for many years. J. B. Priestley gives his readers an amazingly intimate self-portrait in "Midnight on the Desert" which stands out as one of the most revealing of all autobiographies...
VERY HEAVEN - Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Portrait of a savagely embittered young man whose family's bankruptcy, forcing him to leave college, sets him to discovering the world's bankruptcy generally, England's particularly. Intent on vigorous effect, Author Aldington's hand now and then unfortunately goes straight through the canvas...
...many years the statuette has been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as a loan from Grenville L. Winthrop. Now it has generously been given by him to the Fogg where it will join his other bronze, the imaginary portrait bust of the young Marcus Aurelius...
...manhunt tightened around Buenos Aires, where Pin Head Gordillo's lieutenant, one Antonio Capriolo, was still at large. Every car entering the Federal District was stopped and searched. The newspaper Critica scooped its competitors with a "life size" portrait of Baby Pereyra Iraola. Suddenly in a crowded Buenos Aires square, searching police caught sight of Antonio Capriolo, opened fire over the heads of terrified passersby. After a brief duel Public Enemy Capriolo escaped...
...trade press, the Journal was announcing that its January circulation had hit its all-time high of more than 2,900,000 copies. The advertisement also took note of the spectacularly wrong editorial guess which led off the record-breaking January Journal: a frontispiece and full-page color portrait of Edward VIII, "BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, KING. . . ." The Journal's coronation story by able Writer Henry F. Pringle and its accompanying pictures of Edward VIII were made up in the autumn. Last week...