Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name has all the flavor of a national tradition to the general public. In novels of ten years ago, if a fashionable heroine wished a resplendent portrait as the finishing grace of her career, Sargent was inevitably called...
...whatever the final fate of the disputed portraits, Sargent's position in the National Gallery is secure. The gallery hung-several years ago-his fine portrait of Lord Ribblesdale. Sargent, 'in his middle sixties, has become an "old master." Without dying, he has joined Reynolds, Romney, Raeburn as an " immortal British...
RAIN-A scathing exposure of militant Christianity in the South beas, in which Jeanne Eagels gives the most convincing portrait of a hard-boiled lady of the pavement since Pauline Lord's Anna Christie...
...hero of this novel is a super-railroad magnate called Henry M. Galt. He is inferred to be a portrait or, more exactly, caricature - of E. H. Harriman. He is described as "a small man, weighing less than one hundred pounds, with a fretful, nagging body," who walks with "a bantam, egregious stride." The plot of the novel is the story of Galt's triumphs. Incident by incident they may be substantially paralleled in Mr. Harriman's career. First, a spectacular rise; second, reverses, foes, almost defeat; finally, triumph and death. Mr. Garrett has written many articles about...
Died: Sir J. J. Shannon, 61, noted portrait painter, in London. He was born in this country, but spent most of his life in Canada and England...