Word: depict
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when he himself set his feet on the downtown pavements and met the shock of the lawless." All this and more for ten cents per week. In his ransacking, Editor Flynn had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of discovering "a wholly new writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle. This rare being was none other than Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner of New York City, a man whose "own career demonstrates that men are much like milk...
...Idler", Radcliffe's dramatic club, has presented Sierra's "Cancione de Cuna" at Agassiz Theatre. To the drama itself there is no great excitement. But the performance is evidently intended more to depict the sober, melancholy life of the Roman Cathlotic Sisterhood, than to act out a gripping love story...
...designs should be made with black india ink on white paper, four and one-half by seven and one-half inches in size. The design should be in accord with the ticket in question, and distinct enough to make the reproduction clear. As an example the Yard tickets should depict some familiar gate or other familiar objects associated with the Yard; Memorial tickets should have on them a drawing of Memorial Hall. The designs bear the following words respectively: Yard Tickets.--"Harvard Class Day 1924, Admit one to the Yard, 2-11 P. M., June...
...spread abroad 'correct ideas' as to the way in which the world was created," moving pictures have recently been shown in the Court Avenue Presbyterian Church of Memphis, Tenn. They depict Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah and the Deluge. On Jan. 25, William Jennings Bryan was scheduled to be the speaker on how it all happened...
...never rises above the flesh. He measures the sensations of the lower middle class on the scale of his own--as he would have us believe--hyper-sensitive palate and nostril. In his eyes they know no beauty whatsoever, and no pleasure but that which he takes pains to depict as of the grossest sort. Inasmuch as he cannot see life as they see it, he is as inadequate to depict their world as is a blind man to describe the glories of a rainbow...