Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with many such free-style virtuosities, observers might not blame the average vain sitter portraitists.* But the few bravura, turn-of-the-century, super-official portraits such as John Singer Sargent's Mrs. Fiske Warren and Her Daughter, and Giovanni Boldini's Miss Edith Blair, smartly included in the show, looked rather like candy-box covers among the rest of the displays...
Homo Frustratus. In Denver, Cyclist Francis Sargent, nipped by a dog, fired his revolver, slightly wounding the dog and his own ankle, was arrested for cruelty to animals, given a suspended fine, stripped of his commission as volunteer officer of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection. In Los Lunas, N.M., a prisoner made a jailbreak, leaped to the back of a horse, which promptly threw him off on his head. Deputies woke him up. In Santa Fe, J. D. Wilkerson wounded himself playing the musical...
Since the period for sittings in the Houses is now over, all these men must go into Sargent Studio, 154 Boylston Street, Boston, any day this week between 9 and 5 o'clock. If any men do not do so, the Album will be forced to use their pictures from their Freshman Redbook. Because of the added expense caused by this move, these men will be liable to an extra charge...
...Sargent Speaks Thursday...
Scheduled to appear Thursday evening is State Gas Officer Theodore Sargent, who will speak on war gases. No spouter of complicated technical terms, Sargent is well known for his clear discussions of chemical warfare and the methods used to combat poison...