Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King-Emperor may assert himself by trying to end the feud which divides his Irish subjects and bring the whole island under one Government. If His Majesty had any such ideas the Orangemen had no use for him, and up in Belfast they promptly raised a huge portrait of Edward VIII captioned "DOWN WITH THE FENIAN KING...
Adolf Hitler used to object when occasionally his portrait was set up behind the altar in German churches. Now such homage to Der Führer is accepted without rebuke. It is never offered in churches still directed by dignitaries of the German Evangelical Church, who strive to act according to Christian light. In June their daring pastors addressed to Der Führer with "respectful greetings" a Manifesto of their "anxieties and fears" which was ruthlessly suppressed by German police (TIME, July...
...years. Last week Dr. Minkin offered readers an old-fashioned biographical essay, filled with common-sense analyses and romantic speculations, that was calculated to reduce Herod's crimes to historical perspective, render him less a monster, more the victim of a monstrous set of circumstances. Although the portrait that emerges seems plausible, readers are likely to feel that the value of Herod lies less in the discussions of the central figure than in Dr. Minkin's learned account of the relations between Rome and Judea that raised Herod to power, won him the everlasting hatred of the Jews...
Since Wayne Gard writes in what critics have called the Little-Did-He-Think school of biography, his labors to enhance Bass's reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of Bass as a poor illiterate devil who was constantly falling into traps, robbing empty trains, making friends with spies. A tall Indiana boy, an orphan at 13, Bass was caught up in the social chaos that followed the Civil War, drifted South in Reconstruction days, worked in a Mississippi sawmill...
...shepherd named Abdul Ouab asked a French army captain in Algeria to think of some object in his Paris home. The soldier thought of a valuable family portrait. Instantly the picture appeared on the wall in Algeria; the stupefied Frenchman not only saw it but handled it. He cabled his parents in Paris. Back came the reply: "Portrait inexplicably stolen this morning. Police at work and Sûrete announces arrest of thief imminent...