Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer afternoon in 1885 the great Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais, saw his curly-headed little grandson, Willie James, blowing soap bubbles in a velvet suit, induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became...
...while the play is meant to be a portrait of the share-cropper's life in the poor worn out agricultural South, the author, Jack Kirkland, has written a play, that, with some few changes in the denomination of the money mentioned, might as well have been set in a good second-rate apartment hotel on Park Avenue. In this sense, indeed, it is a universal work, and while he should have been casting the spell of poverty and misery, he lets his love of dialogue run away from him, and the momentary humor of back talk of somewhat Chick...
...Pittsburgh woodcarver, later moved on to New York to enlist in the Navy as ship's carpenter. As a boy he had been good at drawing funny likenesses of his neighbors. When his enlistment was up he drifted back to his home town, set up as an itinerant portrait painter. In those pre-camera days that meant a steady living, a free & easy life...
Tall, lanky David Blythe roved from hotel to boarding house, painted local worthies at about $15 or $20 per head. His artistic ability made such a marked impression on one gentleman that, passing Blythe's portrait of an acquaintance staring blankly from a store window, he bowed, doffed his hat, murmured: "Good morning." He made friends and local fame not only by his pictures and convivial eccentricities but by the reams of flowery verse he wrote for local newspapers under the pen name "Boots...
...sold Iran $4,339,000 worth of machinery, bought $3,635,000 worth of rugs, furs, gum, quince seeds and pistachio nuts. That this business might be picked up by Britain was curiously anticipated by the London Sphere, which three weeks ago, ran on its second page a studio portrait of the King of Kings and a caption lifted intact from the Iran Government handouts which describe that monarch as born "of a very noble Persian family ... of the purest element of the Iranian race...