Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artist Sloan's first notable paintings were those which he made of Manhattan or Philadelphia streets and houses, engrossing not alone because they are energetic paintings full of motion and the suggestion of sound, but also because the scenes which they depict are now vanished. In these paintings-The Rathskeller, Philadelphia, Scrubwomen in the Old Astor Library, John Butler Yeats at Petitpas, The City from Greenwich-the figures have the frayed excitement, or the energetic grief that really appears in the faces of city people. Later, small, sparrowlike John Sloan left the city and painted in rock-bound Gloucester...
...entire bay of the nave of the Cathedral which is now rising was built by contributions from the sporting world. In token of that service stained glass windows in that bay will depict the finish of a horse race, two boxers squaring off at the gong, the follow-through at the end of a single to center field, and other episodes in a score of athletic fields...
...cigaret drooping from his mouth. Another has a dented derby pulled down over his face. The third, I must admit, seems to be a rather high-grade thug. Do you think national advertisers will come running to your office, if TIME readers are really as you depict them? I read TIME and am no thug...
...least curious fact concerning the Signora Rachele Mussolini is that her very name is unmentioned in the sole authorized biography of Il Duce, a volume of 352 pages in which space is found to depict several mistresses. Thus this great lady is the ideal Italian type of completely self-effacing signora pòr bene-a phrase which cloaks her with all the matronly virtues and proclaims that, as befits Caesar's wife, she is transcendently above suspicion...
...Haughton, will take place on November 19, the day of the Yale football game. One of the bronze figures will show the famous mentor in a familiar pose, with one knee on the ground and a megaphone poised to bark out some command on the gridiron; the other will depict him at his coaching specialty, punting...