Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hanging nervously in the background, Administration leaders left the counterattack to the men best able to get away with it-the veterans in the House. Colorado's Democrat John Carroll, veteran of both World Wars, started the fight. Protesting the unprecedented scale of the bill, he moved to kill it outright. In the first showdown, the House voted twice to do so, but on standing and teller votes in which names are not recorded. Slick Parliamentarian Rankin was not to be licked so easily. Immediately, he demanded a roll call...
...Metropolitan Opera is back in town, and Harvard men are again signing for walk-on parts at $1 a night. Each evening about 20 students don tights and helmets, push onto a crowded stage, and burble background noises. The Crimson sent a reporter to the scene for an eyewitness report of their activities...
...carefully naive and confused as the preacher himself. The rest of Barrie's characters are animated with a fidelity and attention to detail that only one similar movie, "Great Expectations," has recently equalled. Max Steiner, who is still going strong at this sort of thing, knitted a musical background into the story which quietly manages to take over an important part of the mood-setting on its own. The photography is simple and sane; the scenery alone, is worth the ticket price. "The Little Minister" is no movie to miss...
...glittering green. His head was ringed by a gold and platinum crown studded with $3,000,000 worth of emeralds. More emeralds flashed from his silver-braided Moslem long coat and sword belt. Only his shoes, British-made black oxfords, were plain. While Arab minstrels wailed in the background, 500 red-fezzed subjects came up one by one, bowed, and dropped gold pieces (worth $7 each) at his feet...
...sidelines teemed with children fingering the strange lacrosse sticks, gawking at the players, and postering the managers for drinks of water; while, in the background, the jolly old rugby team was sporting itself, 30-strong, all over its practice field...