Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From all over the province, Liberals had come to celebrate the anniversary and to talk politics. They trooped into the grey stone clubhouse on Sherbrooke Street, settled into the leather chairs in the lounges or sat down beneath the portrait of Prime Minister King in the dining room. In the 50 years since Sir Wilfrid Laurier founded the club, many a Liberal policy has been thrashed out within the walls of the Reform Club. Though its membership (1,000) is predominantly French, most are bilingual, and the club alternates a French president with an English...
...looked with keen interest at the cover of TIME, March 29 issue, Mr. Lovett's portrait, which is drawn by Mr. E. H. Baker...
Roger Lemelin, himself the son of a mulot, has drawn, in The Town Below, a thickly atmospheric portrait of St. Sauveur. He wrote it on the family kitchen table, while his numerous brothers & sisters did their homework on the other end. Lemelin loves the vivid, sharp-tongued mulots but at times he is overcome with despair over their backwardness and superstitions...
...Naked City. The late Mark Hellinger's big, bright portrait of New York, with Barry Fitzgerald and the Homicide Squad in the foreground (TIME, March...
...explain the last portrait, which Picasso painted in 1939, Sabartés repeats a puzzled dialogue with his own doctor, who had never before seen a Picasso. "What astonishes me," the doctor had sensibly remarked to Sabartés, "is to see the nose going one way and the lips and chin another, as if the face were in profile, and the head both in profile and full face at the same time but in a different direction from the eyes, except that one of them is hanging in the air while the glasses are upside down...