Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of a design-for-living trio who've grown up together only to get hurt and tangled in the war. Despite the fact that it moves at rather a slow pace, the film is done so carefully and played with such sincerity as to be extremely impressive...
...Merry Widow and As Thousands Cheer. In common with the former, it is laid in a fabulous kingdom found only in operetta. But in comparison with the latter, about the best that can be said is that the same man wrote both books. Jubilee chiefly satisfies the eye. In design and color, the costumery by Irene Sharaff & Connie Depinna probably surpasses anything so far seen on Broadway. But when Jubilee tries to please the ear, and especially when it tries to tickle the funnybone, it is less successful...
Several days ago Senator Borah expertly launched a political balloon. In a letter to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt he raised from the dead the old issue of monopoly. In effect he demanded that the son of the old "trust-buster" rally to the old cause and, not altogether without design, managed to get his own name plastered over the nation's front pages...
...magic mirror. Producing this flendish article the Fogg conjurer will let you examine it until you are satisfied that it contains no hidden hingos or occult openings. It appears to be very similar to the other bronze mirrors of the collection, with one surface polished and a design carved on the back. Then, with sleeves figuratively rolled, the master of magic will reflect a beam of sunlight on a wall --and, hocus poems, the design on the back is projected by the beam of light...
...surface of the mirror was polished and kept bright by generations of owners. Every time that it was polished, it was rested on its back, or carved surface. Through constant repetition of this act, the metal between the points of contact sunk, imperceptibly, but enough to allow the design on the back to be reflected from the shiny surface...