Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 90 minutes with the nominee, one-time (1921-36) Comptroller General John R. McCarl sat down, wrote an enthusiastic blurb. Excerpt: "I venture to prophesy that his will be the most economical administration our country has experienced for many a moon-and in striking contrast with the extravagances now so prevalent...
...Soon the lobby of the Bellevue-Stratford and the stairs down to its bar were strewn with Democrats so deep in their cups that they could not reach their seats in Convention Hall. On the basis of liquor consumed, the Republican Convention in Cleveland seemed, by contrast, with the Democratic one in Philadelphia, to be a meeting of the W. C. T. U." (TIME, July...
...Gothic. In Venice and Genoa, however, the Gothic spirit hung on a little longer in the magical paintings of Crivelli, Lotto, Magnasco and Strozzi. Lotto's Pieta is one of Cleveland's most striking pictures: a huge, bullnecked Christ crucified whose dead skin lies in ghastly contrast against the living flesh of His friends. Crivelli adds to his Madonna and Child a huge housefly, an exactly rendered cucumber, a halo like a round sheet of riveted steel...
...Gandhi was prompt with a letter of personal sympathy posted to No. 18 Cadogan Gardens. Sir Samuel's prompt decision to resign then was, last week in British eyes, a symbol of the qualities of firmness which should make him a great First Lord. In contrast to this, his successor as Foreign Secretary, young Anthony Eden, cut a sorry figure in the House of Commons as his Sanctionist policy crashed and he did not resign. Nowadays there is an almost frightened apology in young "Tony" Eden's eyes as he goes about with the Foreign Office...
...contrast with oldtime fiction operatives like Sherlock Holmes, whose deductive gifts were superhuman, Ashenden belongs to the modern school of sleuths whose fallibility makes them plausible. In Secret Agent he scuffs about hotel corridors, deserted churches, glaciers, the backstairs of a chocolate factory, wearing an unhappy frown which is at times reminiscent of Charles Butterworth's. Spy Ashenden's behavior is, however, less of a hindrance than a help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred...