Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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scoundrel." Woodrow Wilson stamps, 17 cents, will be on sale at U. S. postoffices on Dec. 27. The portrait on the stamp was chosen by Mrs. Wilson. Dec. 28, the day after the stamp appears, was Wilson's Birthday...
About ten years ago Mr. Erskine published a work entitled The Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent. His portrait of Helen is of a woman who believes in the moral obligation to be intelligent and who suffers from the natural obligation of being beautiful...
...pictures a loyal alumnus cherishing a fond affection for an alma mater he no longer understands and blundering incompetently about without exercising "a cubic millimeter of his brain." There are many men who help to create alumni opinion in just the manner Mr. Allen describes, though such a portrait is more caricature than a likeness. Amusing as the picture is, there is always a basis of truth in satire; and undergraduates who later will swell the great body of alumni will do well to reflect on the matter lest they in turn may offer a target for well-directed...
Given the regrettable fact that the king, defender and emperor as aforesaid, is decidedly short in stature and slight in build, the reason for his discomfiture is not far to seek. The Simms portrait exhibited him seated in all his royal robes and things, yards upon yards of them, with his exceedingly slim legs protruding from their midst. There have not been lacking people to insinuate that the satire in the portrait was intentional. Whether or not Mr. Simms has been smiling discreetly at this regal figure whose consort out-tops him by inches, the fact remains that the picture...
...portrait, which was painted by I. M. Gaugengigl, was the principal feature of the brief private celebration in the Germanic Museum...