Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such quick results! How did you contrive it? I received a money order pinned to a blank sheet of paper on June 14 in payment for the $50-rug I sent Senator Bratton a year ago. You are better than an attorney...
...cyclorama of historical novels, reaching around from hoary antiquity to practically contemporaneous times, there are some highly pictorial spaces left comparatively blank. One such space, crammed with history not adequately fictionalized, is the period after Queen Elizabeth's death, when religious malcontents fled England for Holland, cleared out from there for a newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details...
...several truckloads of sand, a six-wheeled motor truck, a dozen unemployed Montmartre musicians, six chorus men, 100 lions. With these he staged a lion hunt. The black musicians brandished spears, whooped. The truck chug-chugged, blew up clouds of sand. The musicomedy lion-hunters fired many a blank cartridge. The lions yawned, played with the desert's papier-mache rocks, refused to play dead. But spectators applauded nonetheless. A lion hunt was different...
...President Paul Doumer attended the wedding of the future dean of Paris cameramen. Last week it came about that bearded Photographer Piston was standing with his flashlight upraised, his camera trained on the patriarchal President at the precise instant when a tall, burly Russian bounded forward and fired point-blank at M. Doumer with a Colt pistol. Instantly dropping his flashlight, Photographer Piston wielded his camera like a club, beating the assassin over the head, stunning him momentarily-and throwing away the chance to make a Picture of the Century...
...Paul Painlevé (who announced that he did not choose to run at the last moment) gave him twelve votes, the Communists cast eight for Communist Leader Marcel Cachin (who lost his Chamber seat in the earlier election last week), and finally 59 members of the National Assembly dropped blank ballots into the ornate, Napoleonic urn. Cried President Lebrun of France, soon after his election: "In the most ambitious dreams of my childhood I never dared hope to attain to such heights. I am extremely proud of the confidence of the nation. ... I will strive to carry forward the exalted...