Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aisles, outside the gates. Not since he appeared at Philadelphia last June to accept his nomination had newshawks heard anything like the roar which went up as the Nominee was driven slowly around the infield behind an Uncle Sam leading a donkey. Over the grandstands gleamed his floodlighted portrait, 40 ft. high, captioned HE SAVED AMERICA. Exhilarated by this hero's welcome, Franklin Roosevelt mounted a platform over second base to tell Pittsburgh and the nation how he had done it, justify the money it had cost...
Although he gives only limited sketches of individuals, Bernstorff mentions in passing that the Archduchess Luisa was "more of a case for Sigmund Freud than for the historian," that Prince Max could only sleep with the assistance of powerful narcotics. His best portrait is of his friend Talaat Pasha, Grand Vizier of Turkey, a gentle cynic who, when pressed about the Armenian question, would suggest that it was solved since there were no Armenians left. Anxious to have Turkey represented at an international Socialist Congress, Talaat was embarrassed to find that there were no Turkish Socialists either. He appointed three...
...bemused by the world around them, they have nevertheless possessed a homely reality, emerged as far more life-like U. S. types than the creations of more conventional novelists. Last week, in a novel that is in some respects the most unusual he has written, Sherwood Anderson added the portrait of an active, wilful, adventurous girl to his gallery. Although it has its share of shadowy eccentrics-including one young fellow who wants to be a horse-it differs from Anderson's previous works in its melodramatic fire & smoke, since it is a tale of moonshiners, murders, narrow escapes...
Back in Switzerland in 1528 he swanked it about Basle in furs and velvets, bought a fine house for his wife and family, then returned to England in 1530. As far as is known it was the Tudor tycoon Thomas Cromwell (whose portrait by Holbein now hangs in Manhattan's Frick Gallery) who first introduced this skillful German to bluff King Hal. Henry took to Holbein immediately, made him his court painter in 1537, trusted him sufficiently to send him to Duren in 1539 to paint a reportorial portrait of Anne of Cleves whom Henry was thinking of making...
...little self-portrait remained in the Holbein family for generations, was not known to the world of art until 1930 when Art Expert Dr. Paul Ganz cleaned it, published its photograph in a magazine. Since then museums and private collectors in a dozen countries have been anxious for it. The only other absolutely authentic Holbein self-portrait is a watercolor in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence...