Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week an archaic Union regulation, that no oranges or apples can be given out uncut, has been enforced for the first time this year, to the detriment of the Yardlings' midnight snacks and orange fights. Sharp contrast to this is seen in the House dining halls, where oranges, apples, bananas, and even grapefruit are doled out gratis and uncut...
George Farquhar's racy comedy of the seventeenth century, "The Recruiting Officer," was successfully given by the House Dramatic Club last night. The play was in complete contrast is the insipid respectability of the club's Christmas presentation, "The Sleeping Car," and marks an era of new enthusiasm since the organization cast off faculty shackles...
...field general directed operations from below, and furnished instructions in mop technique, which were a sad contrast to the Department's usual efficiency...
...audiences, long accustomed to enduring without means of retaliation her displays of smug feminine understanding, may derive sneaking, sadistic satisfaction from the fate that overtakes Ann Harding in this picture. Otherwise its excellence is impaired when, in an attempt to achieve a horrifying contrast with the subdued tone of earlier sequences, Director Frank Lee permits his cast to overact the climax with some of the wildest grimacing witnessed since the screen became articulate. Good shot: Gerald excusing himself in a Paris cabaret to pick out his favorite brandy, in the cellar...
...basis of popular opportunity Soviet Russia takes the lead in democratic government today. Not on the standard of the comfortable peasant of the United States are Russian workers well off, declared the lecturer, but in contrast to the sharecropper in Arkansas they have a "richer, fuller life; they have hope...