Word: self-portrait
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...model trouble. For his Lion painting he tried the zoo, pictures at the public library, stuffed specimens at the American Museum of Natural History. He wound up with a cheap, toyshop lithograph, painted a lion with a tailored mane and a bland, human face that could do for a self-portrait of Hirshfield...
...slickest of U.S. slick magazines was born-along with baseball, Buffalo Bill, the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York's first tattoo parlor and Carry Nation-100 years ago. This week, to show how gracefully it had grown old, it unveiled a centenary self-portrait that managed to appear both candid and flattering. The 348-page Christmas annual that came from the presses of swank, sophisticated Town & Country was the heaviest (2 Ibs. 11½ oz.) issue in its history. It was also the richest, with around $250,000 worth...
...unabashedly simian Self-Portrait by Tennessee's Representative James Percy Priest. It was, explained Priest, "a joke...
Alois Hitler, half-brother of Adolf, was getting pretty tired of it all: U.S. newsmen in Germany were still getting in his hair. For the umpteenth time he recited his grubby life story for them, and then offered a self-portrait. Said he: "I am a tired old man who is fed up with being questioned about Hitler...
...Self-Portrait. In Paris, an American learned that two Frenchmen had tried to steal his getaway car while he held up a restaurant, exclaimed indignantly: "The crooks...