Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said the dressmaking Captain apprehensively, "The Princess wants to consult Queen Mary on every detail before we even make sketches. The wedding dress will be considered very carefully at Balmoral Castle...
...stand (with help), climb stairs (with help)? What does he do when tempted by toy "lures" beyond his reach? The cameras ground away, and in the Atlas every movement of hands, arms, legs, feet, heads, posteriors is described in formal and scientifically pompous language. Eight paragraphs are required to detail one stair-climbing sequence lasting...
...Miss Robinson." cried the father of the pressmen's union, "had no more to do with the employment of Jack Wilshear than my office boy! I think she is 1,000,000% in every detail. There are enough two-fisted men around here without picking on a little woman...
Most other British papers referred to "a higher personage" or to "The Crown." Stoutly the Morning Post headlined UNITED STATES INQUIRY CANARD, suppressed no detail, contemptuously observed, "We publish this incredible story as illustrating the sort of evidence which was thought good enough for a Senatorial enquiry...
...returned a third time. To squelch him, Harris gave him the script of The Criminal Code, told him to come back next morning with complete sketches and blue prints for the stage design. Prodigy Johnson bent to this mighty task, appeared next morning with the work. He had subordinated detail to mass and form, and his designs not only were accepted but assured him overnight of a good living...