Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accepting a portrait of John Reed to hang in one of her dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what...
...Johnson was always popular with his colleagues. Yet unlike many of them he had kept closely in touch with the everyday people who make up audiences. Johnson is a golfer, a Mason, a Rotarian. He has remained as unpretentious as his townsfolk in Guelph, Ontario, who now prize his portrait in Guelph Town Hall but who once wondered at a youth so incalculable that he would turn his back on the ministry and the law, set out on his own for Manhattan...
...been deeded to the Missouri Historical Society. The 3,000 items included: the grease-stained Lindbergh flying suit; the Congressional Medal of Honor; decorations from 20 governments; 49 old life-membership passes in fraternities and lodges; 18 gold keys to cities in Europe and the U. S.; 14 portrait busts in silver, bronze, plaster, peachstone, soap; numerous paintings; 256 books; 200 medals; 64 models of the Spirit of St. Louis, including one cut from a half-inch diamond; gold & silver loving-cups; gold & diamond-studded personal jewelry, including six stickpins, ten watches, nine rings; a pair of 18th Century silver...
...CATHERINE, THE PORTRAIT OF AN EMPRESS-Gina Kaus-Viking...
...neither the first nor the last of her biographies, but one of the best. Readers whose vague knowledge of 18th Century Russia had been based on vague cinemas, had their smatterings bettered and corrected by it; those who were more interested in women than in empresses found Catherine, The Portrait of an Empress, an extraordinary woman's life well told...