Word: commandeering
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...Painter de Laszlo to inject these qualities into his portraiture, but they are by no means the only requirements for being a de Laszlo subject. You will also need $14,000 if you want a really first-rate product, full length, executed with all the Sargentesque splendor at his command. For $10,000 you can have a neat three quarter length affair, much on the order of the Hoover portrait which de Laszlo finished last week. For $3,000 he may consent to do a sketch, a little like the one of Mrs. Hoover, warm, sympathetic and technically graceful...
...historic tree on Garden Street fell to the ground on October 26, 1923. "There is no proof," says Jack, "That Washington either assumed command of the 'American Army' under the shade of this tree, or that he noticed it or cared for it; and there is certainly very much doubt with regard to the authenticity of the origin of some of the offerings made by professional nurserymen...
...possibility of a United States of Europe is in any way less remote now than it was a decade ago, the chief credit, among contemporary statesmen, probably goes to Aristide Briand. No matter what deviations the exigencies of politics produced, his career as a whole may justly command the gratitude of Europe...
...view of the circumstances, and, after asking God for celestial light, we have been led to determine and command, as we hereby do, as follows...
...marking, with the object of directing the energy of the students toward those forms of effort that will be for them of the most permanent value; for, as in every other part of the University, the objective should be less acquiring familiarity with technical processes than a firm command of principles. The selection of the best candidates for admission is no simple matter; and in doing it college records alone do not suffice. So far as possible the men are personally seen. In fact members of the staff interviewed seventy-one per cent of the applicants, visiting eighty colleges...