Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MORNING FLIGHT-Peter Scott-Scribner ($10). In the front of this fine book is a self-portrait of the only son of the late Captain Robert Scott and the celebrated English sculptor who is now Lady Hilton Young. From his father, who died returning from the South Pole, Peter Scott evidently inherited a determination to be strenuous, and from his mother a plastic talent beyond the ordinary. His book contains reproductions of 51 of his oil paintings, 16 of them in color, and a youthful gunning testament drawn largely from "my wildfowling diary." Few people have painted anything so well...
...Susan, a portrait study of a plump young blonde by Eugene Speicher...
...Early photographs of the incomplete Kroll mural created a mild buzz in Washington when it was discovered that the black-gowned jurist lending a helping hand to oppressed workmen was an obvious portrait of Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, onetime Republican Attorney General, good friend of Leon Kroll and one of the Court's steady liberals...
Last week Allan Nevins, whose biography of Grover Cleveland won him the Pulitzer Prize for 1932, offered a full-length portrait of the Secretary that clarified the disorder of Grant's regime, revealed aspects of U. S. political life of which few voters have been aware. Fish was an excellent choice as central figure for such a study. Unchangeable, incorruptible, with his prejudices, political views and limitations firmly fixed by the time he took office, he served as a standard of consistency against which the dishonesties and irresponsibilities of his colleagues could be measured. Hamilton Fish: The Inner History...
Author Williams' amiable little book of personal reminiscences of 0. Henry gives a good account of the conditions under which many of the stories were written, paints an admiring but not very clear. portrait of their author, and suggests, as its most valuable contribution, something of the flavor of life in easy-going newspaper and Bohemian circles in pre-War New York. A young reporter on the New York Sunday World when he met 0. Henry, William Wash Williams was dazzled by him from the first. The Quiet Lodger of Irving Place consequently tells little that is new about...