Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...labor question ... is the outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been...
...human side of the war is stressed--the droll "Tommies", the clamorous market-place the mock rebellion of the Irish youngsters, and the peace and beauty of the open fields These details serve only to silhouette more sharply the brooding terror of the rebellion. Sudden death is the backdrop for all the scenes, and always it is threatening to fall down on the players. There is enough martial noise and clank to satisfy the most blood-thirsty, but some other element makes the movie great...
People were struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
...pennants on the wall, an ashtray shaped like a skull. Lucky theatre-goers saw Ben Hur, with real horses racing madly on a treadmill track. Cars were called "au-to-mo-biles," 25 miles an hour was a devilish pace, a puncture a major accident. Against such a 1904 backdrop, Author Brinig this week published a lengthy (570-page) tale that covered the U. S. from San Francisco to Manhattan, from Main Street in Montana to high life in Saratoga. Readers who flinch at phantoms need have no fear. Author Brinig is content with summoning his ghosts, asks them...
...Paris last week, against a backdrop of grenadine velvet, the Bank of France staged its first meeting since Premier Blum enfranchised the Bank's 40,000 hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often...