Word: blende
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...microscope, these grains are often too gross, blur the minute detail. Greatly enlarged pictures are pockmarked. Cinema "stills," when projected, look spotted because of their size. Since the films in the ordinary moving picture are shown in rapid succession the grain patterns, which are different in every picture, blend, escape the eyes of the spectators...
Life on the Riviera is a curious blend of pastimes such as sunbathing and tennis which build up the human system, and occupations such as tippling and gambling which do not. By far the most spectacular figures which move in the latter sphere are the mysterious group of slick little sloe-eyed men known as the Greek Syndicate...
Dainty, almost birdlike charm and a faculty for making every stage picture blend gracefully with the music - these are the chief reasons for Bori's success at Manhattan's Metropolitan and at Ravinia. She is a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Valencia, Spain, where she was born, the stage was considered an undignified profession for an aristocrat. Lucrezia went to Italy, changed her name, won fame overnight as "Manon Lescaut." She has gone back to Spain many times since then, never once sung there in public...
...Grandfather Lloyd, representative of the old aristocracy; Anne is the girl who is part of her city only against her will; Bertram Garrison, the principal character, is the young composer whose creative spirit struggles for realization in the face of various softening influences. The other characters, except Elaine, blend into the background; she stands apart, a curiosly fascinating figure whose charm is as inexplicable as her detachment from the rest of the scene is apparent...
During the course of his speech he said, "I do not want just a good football team; I want a winning eleven. I want to play Yale, Harvard, and Princeton and lick them all. We shall blend effectiveness in coaching with showmanship and we want to fashion our style of play and develop our elevens on these bases, exactly as Knute Rockne has done at Notre Dame...