Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...canvases shown were a succession of hulking figures, mostly nude and vaguely classical, painted in the earthy browns, yellows and reds of early Italian frescoes. Best of the lot was Mario Tozzi's solidly painted Farmer's Dream, a portrait of a plump, prosperous and sleepy-eyed husbandman, seated at a country café table by a jug of wine...
Hypochondriacs could be reassured at once. The heritage of the Four Doctors,* whose famed portrait by John Singer Sargent is one of Hopkins' most treasured relics, was safe & sound. Separated from the rest of the University by three and a half miles of Baltimore streets, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is also set apart by its separate and adequate endowment. Its affiliate, Johns Hopkins Hospital, found itself short of ready cash last year (TIME, April 29), but its power and prestige were by no means at stake. It was Johns Hopkins' academic division, equally renowned and cherished...
Marks realizes that school and sex are not the only factors in a rounded education and gives us snapshots of all the casual acquaintances who have made a definite impression on the characters of most young people. There is a glimpse of church life, a more detailed portrait of the pet dog, a glance at high school athletics and a prolonged picture of family relationships. Whatever message the author may wish to present, it is largely contained in this latter description...
...hands she conned every page, neatly inked out every passage, every word that she considered indelicate. Her labor of love cost experts a year and a half to delete the deletions. To edit this treasure trove for the press proud Collector Isham imported scholarly Author Geoffrey Scott (Portrait of Zelide) who died in harness, leaving the long job for Yale's Frederick A. Pottle to finish...
...practice in Seattle to go to war. On his return be assailed dental pain. Now ready for general use, his "desensitizer" will be made available to the unmonied through patent control by Columbia University. In the gallery of benefactors of humankind, Northwestern's and Columbia's Dr. Hartman's portrait will look out with a bluff twinkle that for once does not give the dentist's false assurance...