Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wide Knowledge of Background Necessary...
...pompous to you but when you consider the stuff most of the columnist do include in their work, my approach can be excused. The ties, splits, and expectancies are of minor interest to me, and a close glance at my column will show that they are put in the background by my editorializing...
...peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best photograph: A Slovakian goosegirl, ganders and geese against a background of rolling, lawnlike fields, mountains, summer clouds...
...born in Rhode Island, brought up in Philadelphia), Howe is an overseer of Harvard, was for 25 years a trustee of the Boston Athenaeum, probably knows more about New England's history and first families than any man alive. To his knowledge is credited much of the background which has gone into more polished biographies than Author Howe's; notable is The Flowering of New England, by his good friend Van Wyck Brooks...
...Paris Opera House. Frankly sentimental, often overdone, and built about a plot which is so poorly constructed as to contain two separate climaxes, the film nevertheless succeeds by virtue of the sheer beauty of the dance, the genuine character of the dancing school atmosphere, and the well-chosen background music. Janine Charrat, as the child ballerina, has been carefully directed with a view to psychological complications by Jean Benoit-Levy, and as a result her performance in more convincing than that of her adult co-stars. Particularly colorless is Yvette Chauvire, for whose love the child arranges the crippling...