Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Face of Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary...
...Sir Joshua Reynolds flattered 18th century women with his graceful, glimmering brushwork. But when he painted self-portraits, which he did at least 45 times, he exercised all the artistic honesty that Rus- kin could have wished. One of the last of his self-portraits has been acquired by the Ferargil Galleries. The stately, long-nosed Sir Joshua wears the rickety spectacles that were harbingers of his pitifully failing eyesight. For him, shining satins would not much longer shine. Shortly after completing this prophetic portrait he made a stoically doleful remark. "All things have an end," he said...
English tycoons bought, last week, expensive paintings. Lord Melchett paid $200,000 for a Rembrandt portrait of Rembrandt's servant Hindrickje Stofiels, who stood stolidly by the artist in penurious years. Sir Philip Sassoon, Under Secretary of State for Air, bought a Gainsborough portrait of the artist at 21, his wife & daughter...
...Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher, critic and literary editor of the Nation...
Died. Mrs. Arthur Edward Stilwell, 68, widow of the late famed railroad builder (TIME, Oct. 8); by an eight-story leap from her apartment, 13 days after the death of her husband; in Manhattan. Both Mr. & Mrs. Stilwell were spiritualists, students of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge. Mr. Stilwell once declared that "brownies" advised him in his business enterprises. Mrs. Stilwell left a note, stating that her death would take her to Mr. Stilwell "on another plane of consciousness...