Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caller next morning left on a White House table some large fans illuminated with the President's portrait and the bold lettering: "Choose Coolidge." ( A White House houseguest of the week was Dwight Whitney Morrow, who required little entertaining so busy was he calling around in officialdom to learn all he could about his new post of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow took his oath, talked much with the President, heard that he was praised when his predecessor, James Rockwell Sheffield, called on his host...
...Connor, 79, M. P. and a veteran of Fleet Street (which in London parlance is synonymous for journalism), was one of the guests of honor. As he strode into the low, planked ceilinged room in which a table was set for 50, he noted the portrait of Samuel Johnson by Sir Joshua Reynolds that adorns a space above the fireplace and he noted, too, the heavily timbered windows that shut out much of what little light streams in from the narrow Wine Office Court, a lane hardly more than three feet wide, on which the Cheshire Cheese abuts...
...that often they do not mean much. This one might have meant a lot five years ago. It is a study of a high-strung virgin much in love with her sister's husband. The resulting tale of how she smashed his home with hysteric lies is another portrait of the sex-starved woman. There have been many such portraits in life and letters of late. Hidden is another good one; affords an interesting evening in the theatre; and never achieves brilliance. Mr. Merivale gives a good, well-bred performance; Miss Merrill a good performance...
...ancient tongue of the Hellenes, and that Milton had a quiet little joke at his expense. The inscription reads, "When you compare this with the form Nature herself fashioned, you will say that the picture has been engraved by an unskilled hand. Friends of mine not recognizing this portrait will please laugh at the poor copy of a poor painting...
...sculptures readily divide into two groups, those where the inspiration is eastern, and portraits. Of the latter one only is in marble and its whiteness challenges a comparison with the others. This piece, a portrait of Galli-Curci, is well done in a realistic manner, where the surface has been minutely worked. How much more interesting and daring is the other painted and laquered wood representation of the prima donna. Here a brilliant red comb above dark hair, and crimson lips suggest the sparkle of the stage. The marble version gives us her features as an individual, while the colored...