Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...caricaturing impact, have made him second only to Britain's great David Low (TIME. July n ) in European popularity. He was once honored with formal suppression by the French police, who seized a special all-Sennep number of Le Rire in which it had amused the cartoonist to portray the various members of the Chamber of Deputies as the aged, bearded and hairy houris of a gigantic brothel...
...Door of Life she has taken on a bigger theme, which she describes as "the relationship of a mother and young children and unborn children and just-born children," adding her belief that her novel is "the first attempt to portray the very first moments of this relationship in de-tail." Whether or not it is the first attempt, Enid Bagnold's admirers are likely to hope that it will be her last, since The Door of Life gives such a rosy view of the joys of motherhood, contains so many lush emotional passages and so many unreal philosophical...
Burgess Meredith and Lillian Gish portray quite sympathetically the couple who do well in poverty without knowing it but ruin themselves when they join the moneyed interests. Russell Collins is excellent as the uncouth fellow who remains fanatically honest, no matter where he finds himself...
Investigation revealed that the object of the pictures was not to portray the peculiar birds but to photograph the cases in which the birds were enclosed. The pictures were authorized by Duke University so that Duke might have as artistic show cases as has Harvard...
...strait-laced socialite environment, awkwardness, homeliness, family cares, fears ranging from burglars to not being able to have babies. Not entirely because of conscious tact, but also, the reader gathers, because her victory was won independently of her strongwilled, busy husband does Mrs. Roosevelt's story portray F. D. R. as the dimmest character...