Word: crypticly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lincoln (United Artists). This is not a drama about Lincoln nor a portrait of him but a biographical sketch made of rapid, isolated sequences from his life. The approach is conventional, almost school-bookishly historical. In the producers' effort, often successful, to make a recognizable human being from the cryptic figure of Lincolnian anecdote, the audience is never allowed to forget that this human being was also the Savior of the Union. It is not the approach an artist would take; in taking it Director David Wark (Birth of a Nation) Griffith was thinking first of the boxoffice. And since...
What Publicist Putnam intends to do in the future is not known. He may expand his cinematic activities, may publish on his own, may retire, may go off exploring Perhaps he will do all these things. His cryptic statement of plans last week was this: "If you played golf twelve years, you wouldn't stop all at once, would...
...Painter Picasso, aloof, never has sought to lead a school. Rarely has he issued a dictum on art that was not curt, cryptic. What he thinks about himself and his followers is largely a mystery. When Creative Art lately obtained a translation of a long Picasso letter published in 1926 by the Russian review Ogoniok, it published excerpts as leading article in its June issue, out last week...
West Virginia is pocked with Indian mounds which have yielded bushels of arrow heads and other implements. One of the greatest mound discoveries was in Moundsville where, in 1838, was unearthed stone plaque covered with cryptic writing. Hoping to find some trace of the ancestry of prehistoric Americans savants plunged into the task of deciphering the writing...
...Joseph Medill Patterson and Robert Rutherford McCormick turned to Lincoln, not to Barnum. Curious crowds stood in front of the new News building last week, eyeing a procession of laborers, beggars, children, flappers, photographers marching in light relief across the building's grey-green granite facade over the tabloidally cryptic excerpt: "He made so manv of them...