Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year-old monarch's normalcy, was able and glad to reassure Rumanians who had not access to their King. A scurrilous despatch from Bucharest, last week, envisioned His Majesty as licking with relish and sticking onto many an envelope stamps of the new series which bears his portrait...
...everyone knows, the beauty of the Langhorne sisters long was the pride of Virginia, the joy of the nation's portrait painters. Their fame spread far and wide, to England where Nancy Langhorne, as Viscountess Astor, brought beauty and sharp wits to Parliament; to Manhattan, where Irene Langhorne became the wife of Charles Dana Gibson, noted artist in pen and ink, who hung her picture from a myriad mouldings, the original "Gibson girl...
...said the crowd. It was a no less than four-times-life-size portrait of the busy-beaverish cause of the demonstration...
...Baring. Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather. Gallions Reach, H. M. Tomlinson. The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder. Carry on, Jeeves, P. G. Wodehouse. Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse. No Other Tiger, A. E. W. Mason. The Crook's Shadow, J. Jefferson Farjeon. The Portrait Invisible, Joseph Gollomb. 2 L. O., Walter S. Masterman. The Shot on the Downs, Victor L. Whitechurch. Tracks in the Snow, Lord Charnwood. The Old Dark House, J. B. Priestly. The Greene Murder Case, S. S. Van Dine...
...mixture of both, one Frances Clyne, Manhattan dressmaker, made arrangements to secure an entire room in the Anderson Galleries, generally hung with several score of paintings, so that she could hang in it one large, lonely painting. Conceit may have been her motive, for the canvas was an oil portrait of herself, its owner. Gratitude may more probably have been her motive, for the picture showed a lovely lady; its maker was Frederic Beltram-Masses whom, since he portrayed her in Spain two years ago, Frances Clyne has been booming as a painter of people's faces...