Word: contrasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aristocratic British military family, falls in love with the dazzling American wife of his hardbitten colonel. Nothing happens: at the last moment both Rockingham and Camilla renounce their honorable passion for the greater honor of Empire. The Wally Simpson case, which breaks simultaneously, makes a well-pointed contrast...
Monday's game was characterized by the fine defensive play on the part of Bill Coleman and Win Jameson, who also scored a goal each. Bodychecking was hard, in contrast to the pansy playing against Toronto...
Each issue of the new Messenger will print a resume of the old. The Lynchburg (Va.) Advance thinks that "present day writing will suffer poignantly by contrast." But except for a sketch by Kentuckian Poet Jesse Stuart, the revived Messenger shows few signs of outraging the traditions of the old; on the contrary smells a little too strongly of lavender...
...site chosen for the "Golden Gate International Exposition" placed it in isolated contrast to these surroundings, had a decisive influence on its builders. San Francisco needed an airport before it needed a Fair, and the best place for an airport was determined as early as 1931 by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Credit for putting two & two together is given to Air-enthusiast Henry Eickhoff Jr., who began thumping in 1933 for an exposition along with the airport, on the ground that each would help build the other. Three years more and a fleet of dredges appeared off the wooded...
Compared with the tough kids of contemporary fiction, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were cherubs. But the contrast is more apparent than real; portrayed with James Farrell's pimpled candor, Huck Finn would undoubtedly be just as taboo for adolescent libraries as Studs Lonigan. Well aware of this fact are grownups who grew up in Midwest small towns. But few of them have admitted as much in print...