Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evidence, such as it was, received penetrating scrutiny from would-be-calm General Zertuche. The lines of the sketch, he remarked, were firm and sure, showing no trace of perturbation, and the likeness was recognizable. Scowling thoughtfully...
...charming!" exclaimed Elizabeth, Duchess of York, and promised to carry the sketch to her daughter Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") most popular infant in Great Britain...
...closed your sketch of the able Walter Percy Chrysler: "To save himself reading labor, he had a paper made up for his private use. It is an expensive clipping of magazine articles and economic reports...
...again at Derby, where the Berrys bought the Daily Express and Lord Rothermere the Daily Telegraph. London newspapers of these potent rivals include: Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Evening News and Weekly Dispatch and the Berry's Daily Telegraph, Sunday Times and The Daily Sketch & Graphic
...short chapters devoted to each man are half essay, half straightforward biographical sketch. The effect is to paint clear pictures of the candidates in the medium of their political careers, intimating the fitness of each for the office which they missed, and analyzing carefully the forces which settled the fate the each in the race...