Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will endure. It is a laudable ambition to strive to achieve results of lasting value, although these are by no means always the ones that bulk largest at the time or are the most conspicuous. If fame delight, you, if to be talked about, to have your name and portrait in the public press, the object is not difficult to attain for people who care about it, and will devote some effort and a little skill thereto. Verily they have their reward, and one that, like riches and other worldly prizes, is a gratification to those whose hearts...
Besides an ability to present a scene, Viscount Bryce has the power of describing people. An unbounded sympathy and a keen sense of humor gave him those qualities essential to the portrait painter. His picture of the Polish guide is unforgettable. "He was a strange wild creature, tall, stalwart, and handsome, with bold features, dark hair hanging in long locks round his cheeks and an expression in his eyes like that of a startled fawn. Not that I can remember ever to have seen a startled fawn: however, his expression, was just that which the startled fawn is supposed...
...means have the Democratic Convention in New York City ?and let us hold it in Tammany Hall, or in the New York Central Station, or in the spacious offices of Banker Morgan, under the smiling portrait of King George...
...Davison '06, Conductor. George Newell Sp. and G. W. Woodworth '24, Pianists. Five Pieces for the Piano Edward Ballantine (First performance) Two Voices The Climbing Vine Pavane Minuet Capriccio Played by the composer Socrate Erik Satie (First performance in America) Three Dialogues out of Plato 1. Portrait de Socrate (Le Banquet) 2. Bords de I'lllisus (Phedre) 3. Mort de Socrate (Phedon) J. F. Lautner '21, Tenor Virgil Thomson '23, Planist
Howard Chandler Christy, popular constructor of girls' heads for magazine covers, completed his portrait of President Harding. The picture will be placed on board the Leviathan, to cross and recross the Atlantic in the largest ship afloat when it is put in service this Summer by the United States Shipping Board...