Word: asia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drama is especially notable in having as one of the most prominent male leads, Vsevelod Pudowkin, whose artistry as a director has been notably displayed in such great productions as "The End of St. Petersburg", and "Storm Over Asia". Mr. Pudowkin as an actor does not create as fine an artistic production as he has done as a director, being too prone to expressionless acting somewhat after the German fashion. He plays the part of a man of moral cowardice and converse moral idealism; he is weak, but altruistic as only a Russian altruist...
Following a custom observed by royalty visiting in Asia, honeymooning Prince Takamatsu while visiting the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. asked amnesty for all midshipmen punishable during that day. His request was granted-first time in the history of the U. S. Navy...
TIME needs a rebuke. It prates about being on the job but being like other human things it also is asleep at times. Two incidents demand comment. In issue of March 9. under caption of Asia's Charles Richard Crane TIME missed mentioning that Crane has done more for biological science in America than any one other philanthropist, having built the main laboratories of the Marine Biological Laboratories at Woods Hole, Mass., the main foyer with a big bronze Buddha in the centre, because the Buddhists (as Clarence Little says, and therefore claims to be one) are the only...
...prominent member of the Hoover cabinet recently asked a representative of Siam, "How far is it from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
...half-day ahead of schedule the Graf commander learned by radio that mooring preparations were not complete. He circled the city, dipped the airship's nose three times in salute to King Fuad and his Queen who watched from a terrace of the palace, and disappeared toward Asia Minor to kill time. On its return next morning a member of the Graf's crew dropped by parachute to Almaza Airdrome to give final instructions to the ground crew of 350 British soldiers. These were commanded by Flight Lieutenant Luck who had gone to Egypt last autumn to take...