Word: arraying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anything is needed to demonstrate the respect with which governments hold the power of opinion in international affairs, the array of evidence in this book should suffice. The material is here, although it is presented with all the unrestraint of journalistic sensationalism, and without that balanced judgment and perspective so badly needed in a book of this sort. Mr. Riegel sets out to "view with alarm" the world-wide battle of nationalist propaganda and indeed, few will deny that it is a story lending itself to sensational treatment. It is a story that should be widely publicized...
...fine array of talent has been gathered up to produce the film's musical numbers, but the combined efforts of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Burton Lane and Harold Adamson, and Irving Berlin failed to produce a number that we are aching to hear again. Best tunes of the lot: "When My Ship Comes In," "With Your Head on My Shoulder...
With such a motley array of characters there is material for many involved situations and a complicated plot. Starting in the first act with amusing repartee and witticisms by Lady Wyngate, one is left expectantly awaiting a light comedy. The second act, (in which the characters discuss socialism, Hitlerism, race prejudice, values in life,) gets further away from comedy and closes with a climax that is exceedingly melodramatic. The third act carries on the same theme, but the ending is disappointing and leaves one with a feeling that all the talk that has gone before has been futile and unnecessary...
...They have something of the cold Latin logic in their art and are more interested in the formal than in the emotional possibilities of paint and canvas. Lionel Feininger, with his feeling for design and his ability to catch mood, shows himself one of the most gifted in the array...
...president of the New York Young Women's Christian Association, stood in the centre of a receiving line at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, welcomed 1,000 guests to a Y. W. C. A. dinner. To launch a drive for $200,000, proud Mrs. Hays had brought together an imposing array of Great Ladies. Guests of honor were Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, 55, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, 61, Mrs. James Roosevelt, 80. Most venerable guest of all was reclusive Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...