Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your Saint of the Year might appear on the cover of your issue coming out nearest Christmas, leaving the year-end cover for the Man of the Year. There would be dramatic irony in the contrast...
Several miles south of Belgrade, near the new Royal Palace, Prince Paul built a home of snow-white marble of classical design, a striking contrast to the primitive surroundings...
Though three thousand miles separates us from Europe's sore spots, in contrast with England's one hundred miles, our milder degree of unpreparedness nevertheless warrants close attention. First, during the Fall, the various maneuvers of the Army revealed a scarcity of anti-aircraft equipment, of different types of mobile guns, as well as insufficient guns to protect the coast. The production, or at least distribution of new rifles to soldiers has been slow. Second, it has just been admitted by Admiral Leahy that completion of some of the ships for the Navy has been held up due to lack...
...tomorrow night will be conducted by the Anglo-Belgian director, Mr. Eugene Goosens, known in this country for his work in Rochester and Cincinnati. Despite the obvious fact that Mr. Goosens waves the longest stick seen here in recent years, he is essentially a quiet conductor, in marked contrast to the Orchestra's other guests of late. And as leader of the Orchestra, he is firm and competent in securing what he wants...
...First important native play was The Contrast, in which the homespun hero, disdaining fashionable life, states his preference for "Tabitha, her Bible, a cow, and a little peaceable bundling." In an early Negro play, the white author's ear for dialogue produced: "I don't know what ole missee can see in him to make her likee him so much but I must holee my tongue...