Word: details
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willie's tales, which he learned from his grandmother and which takes hours to tell because it is replete with rich and often racy detail, concerns the tribulations of the Delawares after two women had misbehaved sexually with a dying bird. When the bird, dead, applied for admittance "up above where he should go," he could not get in because he was denied. That night a manitou (spirit) visited the Delaware chief, told him the tribe must atone for the wrong done to the bird. The manitou suggested that all the young women dance naked before...
Last week French newspapermen got the shock of their professional lives. Two of them were arrested for having been in cahoots with foreign propagandists. French journalists, sensitive about their profession's reputation, were spared the unpleasant task of reporting the arrests in detail because of fear of the official secrets act. But rumors of spies, Nazi agents, alarmists, panic-mongers and scandals they could print. They printed so many that papers were crammed with vague reports of the doings of "30 highly placed Paris journalists," "two Germans," an unknown investment broker, two German princesses and 150 others rumored...
...midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just...
Effect of the first lilacs on Judge Hardy is to make him an easy prey for a couple of swindlers. Andy and his father eventually cool off, to the accompaniment of such a wealth of domestic detail, adolescent humor and sage headshakings that hyper-domestic cinemaddicts will have a wonderful time. Those who dislike Mother's Day will be apt to feel that they have just been through it again...
Comparatively unsung across the Hudson, the Newark Museum last week completed its array of summer attractions. Reconstructed in its big, walled garden and restored to the last detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself were: 1) a full-scale reconstruction of a Tibetan lamasery altar; 2) fine lace and silverware; 3) "The Human Body & Its Care," an exhibit featuring a skeleton; 4) American "primitive'' paintings; 5) 200 electrically driven, slow-motion models showing all the physical principles used...