Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a short wait, a guard ushered the newsmen into the long, narrow partners' room with its line of flat-topped desks. The desks were deserted but at the far end beneath a looming portrait of John Pierpont Morgan Sr. stood the firm's traditional spokesman, Partner Thomas Lamont, flanked by Partners George Whitney and Harold Stanley. The newsmen crowded in about the fireplace while Mr. Lamont announced the resignation of three Morgan partners, two partners of Drexel & Co., the Philadelphia affiliate...
...most contemporary biographies look frail. No hero worshipper. Author Bowen calls Sophie a vulgar wanton, a young slut, compares her with a gutter rat, declares that "her worthlessness and the squalor of her tale is duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie's career, it does outline the problem in a manner calculated to provoke thoughtful speculation...
...Djibouti the French colony shrugged as onetime U. S. Charge d'Affaires at Addis Ababa William Perry George displayed a brand new. diamond-studded gold watch emblazoned with the portrait of Emperor Power of Trinity who had given it to him "as a token of exceptional friendship.'' The watch was wasted, Frenchmen opined, noted with fresh shrugs that the new colony of U. S. correspondents at Addis Ababa gathered around His Imperial Majesty last week and joined in a solemn toast to Peace drunk in weak...
...produced upon the story, however, lies in the inescapable fact that, far from blurring its outlines, the change has merely etched them more sharply against the background of the U. S. scene. Thus, what was in 1922 a shrewd and observant novel, emerges in 1935 as a bitingly satiric portrait of an era. Alice Adams-once a typical U. S. adolescent with scarcely more serious claims on a reader's sympathy than Penrod or Willie Baxter-is now something infinitely more important and the heroine of a picture which, while it is often uproariously funny, is in effect...
Died. Leo Mielziner, 65, Manhattan portrait painter, father of Stage Designer Jo Mielziner and Cinemactor Kenneth MacKenna; after long illness; in Truro, Mass...