Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dutchman, he scowled his way through the second act, knelt with dignity upon the Metropolitan's splintery stage and prayed for his redemption. The prayer over, Baritone Schorr got up and, with a regal gesture, threw his black mantle about his shoulders. The gesture enveloped him in a cloud of dust from the Metropolitan's unswept stage. The audience guffawed. When the act was over, Friedrich Schorr sulked in the wings, refused to come back for a single curtain call...
...pants off them. Besides this, they're Latins even in their diapers, and they love magnificently. For a time it seems as if a watery romance between the schoolmarm of one town and the mayor of the other is going to spoil the whole war; but a big cloud comes over the horizon, and the wonderful battle royal starts all over again...
...sticking in its eye, a soldier caught by a wounded elephant's trunk dashed to pieces against the ground. But there are some surprise shots of tranquil loveliness: a close-up of five banks of oars leisurely sweeping a Roman quinquereme through still water; against a big sunset cloud pile, the beak of Hannibal's galley drifting into Carthage harbor as he returns defeated from Italy...
Fred A. Rice '40, St. Cloud, Minn...
Meanwhile Japan also turned on the U. S., reacting violently from its soft answers to Ambassador Joseph Clark Crew's dressing-down of last month. Mr. Tetsuma Hashimoto, president of a one-man patriotic society called the Purple Cloud, bought five columns in the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri to call the U. S. "a pampered millionaire who dabbles in charity without having known suffering." In one of Japan's fishy journalistic coincidences, three important papers all poked fun at the U. S. on the same morning. The Foreign Office spokesman said that Japan will not remain indifferent...