Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot be blamed for an uncompromising role but he most certainly cannot escape the censure that his portrayal is uninspired throughout. His stride is weird, he turns from the camera when the audience wants from the camera when the audience wants to see him and his countenance is insufferably blank. It is difficult, however, to say whether he, or the author, is responsible...
...senior will appear in the Album who has not either subscribed, sent in a life blank, or had his photograph taken for the Album. 1934 Senior Album Committee...
...French conscripts now being called to the tricolor are war babies, born in 1914-15. The fact that they are so few has worried the French General Staff for nearly a year (TIME. June 5). Last week was announced a new scheme to fill the blank files. "To aid unemployment" there will be a great recruiting drive in April for six-month volunteers, open to all young men who have completed their military service any time within the past five years. There will also be a call for "Spécialistes," unemployed young men who are willing to take...
With dawn the fire had feasted fully on Hakodate. The bodies of the drowned were coming in with the morning tide, nudging the wharves. Blackened, blank-faced men groped over the steaming ruins. A sharp sleet was falling. Soon it turned to snow. The survivors huddled in barracks on the peaks, in a few schools still standing, in the railway station and the British and Russian consulates. Some strayed out on the bleak mainland, looking for shelter in the huts of the aboriginal Ainus. Sixty of them died in the snow. Officials began doing their terrible sums. They made...
...pages of doggerel would be an achievement, and Hoxsie Sells His Acres is often far from doggerel. But it ranks higher as a novel than as a poem. In his overanxiety to avoid monotony Author La Farge frequently varies the metre, not always with happy effect. His easy narrative blank verse, with no straining after mighty lines, needs no such purplish patching. Close to prose, his verse is acclimatized to the salty New England accent: "Gracious to dearie me!" cried old Mrs. Slocum, "Confound this floor, by guy, I most to fell." "What's the matter, Ma?" called...