Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...also. She has dark eyes and hair like her father. Her sister, Infanta Maria Christina, is fair like her mother, Queen Victoria. . . . It is said that King Alfonso is anxious to marry his favorite child, Infanta Beatriz, now 18, to her first cousin, Prince Alfonso of Bourbon-Sicily whose portrait you give in TIME. He is the son of King Alfonso's dead sister and is a fine, dashing young officer. If he should then be declared heir to the throne, King Alfonso's daughter Beatriz would eventually become Queen of Spain. You make a mistake in thinking...
Last week, for the second time in its entire existence, the Canadian Senate congratulated one of its members on the 100th anniversary of his birth by presenting him with a portrait of himself. The hoary Senator is the Honorable George Casimir Dessaulles of St. Hyacinthe; his birthplace, Province of Quebec...
...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...
...most recent and one of the most prized gift is a calfskin safe deposit box, once the property of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw of Massachusetts, and containing various legal papers. Among the contents are a bank bill portrait of Chief Justice Shaw and a number of autographed letters of the great justice, including one to Governor Edward Everett, written in 1839, and indorsing John Knapp for election to a state office...
Gainsborough will be among the artists whose work finds a place in the Law School collection. His portrait of Sir Thomas Plummer was purchased by the Law School two weeks before his "Blue Boy" brought a price of $200,000 at an English sale...