Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain's orders and send a call for help. It was too late. Dislodged as the gale tossed the ship, the Tzenny Chandris' cargo shifted. She listed crazily, water rose in the hold, the pumps ceased as the freighter foundered. All hands scrambled excitedly off into the dark, cold water...
...past four years Artist Blickenderfer has been employed by the New York Post as a retoucher of photographs. He lives in suburban Astoria with his dark-haired wife, Elsie, whom he met while both were studying at Manhattan's Art Students' League. Flat canvas has always been a strait-jacket to Artist Blickenderfer. Says he: "I theorize that the phenomenon popularly termed 'distortion' in modern art is possibly an effort to compensate for the unnatural flatness. . . . Today, of course, as in any language, the idiom of distortion is used as a hand-down, its source...
Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences reached back ten years in atomic history, back to the experimental demonstrators of the wave nature of electrons, awarded to Clinton Joseph Davisson and George Paget Thomson this year's Nobel Prize for Physics. Each will receive about $20,000. Said dark, lantern-jawed Dr. Davisson, already much honored for his researches: "I am suffering from a bad case of stage fright...
...angled shafts of light marked this Caesar (Joseph Holland) well-his striding height, jutting chin, cross-belted military tunic, sleek modern breeches. Dark-shirted followers saluted him with uplifted right arms, sharp hails. Lights more benign singled out contemplative, poet-haired Brutus (Orson Welles), a reluctant, calmly-reasoning conspirator-an introspective idealist in a blue serge suit. No lean and hungry Cassius was Actor Martin Gabel, but a hunched, spleeny agitator, surrounded by grim adherents in modern mufti, slouch hats pluck'd about their ears...
...Author. The serious, sociological tone of Leo Calvin Rosten's study belies his creation of the comic character, Hyman Kaplan, in the New Yorker, where he uses the pseudonym Leonard Q. Ross. Polish-born, short, dark-eyed and heavy-lidded, Mr. Rosten at two was taken to Chicago where he soon began to fight poverty with animated ingenuity. A University of Chicago scholarship started his education and he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors. After a year of browsing in Europe, unable to find the newspaper job he wanted when he returned to Chicago, Author Rosten lectured in the Midwest...