Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...girl in the picture insistently scoops another reporter with whom she is in love. He knows her tendencies so well that, when bits of a dead man's diary disappear from his room and reappear on the front page of a tabloid, he suspects her of stealing them. When murderous kidnappers capture the heroine, the picture blazes into melodrama that does not subside till bevies of police have secured her release. The final shot is typical: Linda Watkins excusing herself from the table at which she is lunching with James Dunn in order to telephone an incredibly elliptical summary...
...being held for evasion of the income tax laws, not for violations of the Mann Act and of the Prohibition Laws of which he is guilty. Evidently the workings of the law have been judged too slippery to hold him on anything but this simple charge. Witnesses may disappear, but bank records remain in vaults...
...opinion the word 'conductor' used in the English language for the leader of an orchestra is ridiculous. It ought to disappear from the vocabulary. The Italians speak of direttore, the Germans say diligent, which has the same root. The French say chef d'orchestre, which sounds also rather dignified...
...commonplace that it meant little or nothing and often was approached with a fearless joy for the struggle. Picture the author, confronted at night by two gleaming eyes a few yards down the jungle path, and at a loss what to do, breaking into song and seeing the eyes disappear. Song proved to be a boon to the little band of explorers because at another time it saved in all probability the lives of all of them. After being followed for two days by a murderous band of nearly 200 Indians, they were being attacked by them when, in answer...
...heart. He will remember them; but he will never forget to try the tests, just to make sure he isn't getting rusty. But the final morsel, which he is waiting for, comes in the Music 4 exam, next week. A few little pieces will be played, then disappear into silence. Who might have written them? What musical form are they in? Compare, or contrast...