Word: curtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Party) and New Deal spokesmen let out a chorus of oratory matchless in volume. Unfortunately the Jackson Day chorus-instead of proving an overwhelming performance for which the antimonopoly speeches of Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson last fortnight were a curtain raiser-turned out mainly as a majestic anticlimax...
...Shea took pity on the squirrel which appeared on his window sill, standing cutely on its hind legs. Opening the window he allowed the animal to enter and then offered it some unpopped popped corn. Refusing to eat the pop corn, the squirrel started to climb the Yardling's curtain. When he attempted to pull it down, it turned and grabbed his finger...
...formed by Vice President Garner and House Speaker William Bankhead (see cut), the President proceeded to cover assorted aspects of the Union's condition without concentrating on any one. His address lacked the fire of his historic denunciation of "entrenched greed" in 1936, the amiability of his complacent curtain-raiser to the Supreme Court fight a year ago. Its 4,000 words had, instead, a special quality of earnest persuasiveness combined with that vigorous self assurance which is characteristically Rooseveltian. His major points...
Following an oration by funereal John Martin, dance critic of the New York Times, veteran Ruth St. Denis, artistic progenitor of most modern American expressionists, evoked past history as the evening's curtain raiser. The Japanese maiden of White Jade, more familiar to dance audiences of the medieval 1920s, proved the program's high point in pleasantness...
...Post Road," one purpose of the adaptation being to include the name "Letty," Miss Greenwood's favorite alias. It begins with farce, but before the first of the two acts is over, the spectator learns that he is dealing with criminals plentifully sprinkled in amongst the comics. After the curtain rises again, Letty Madison slowly but effectively outwits the motley gang of variously disguised crooks that has taken possession of her old Connecticut homestead to perpetrate a kidnapping act. The team consists of an unemployed minister, a woman who pretends to bear the baby several days before it is kidnaped...