Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the actors in this quiet little drama emerged from the wings to play their parts on Unionism's stage. What precipitated the show was the simple fact that entertainment had gone a long way since that August night in 1919. Stage performers were now a distinct minority in show business. Not only had the Screen Actors Guild twice as many members as those on Equity's books. All over the land were radio actors who six weeks ago opened up an active membership drive for 10,000 members as a subdivision of Equity. Presided over...
...Provincetown, asks her readers to think of her Conversation in terms of the theatre, but she appends an index of first lines so that segments may be read as single poems. Readers will immediately observe 1) that the most feminine living poet has attempted not one but several distinct masculine idioms, with considerable charm but only here and there with success; 2) that the Millay talent for epigrammatic verse, which endeared her long ago to a liberated generation, has profited by colloquial language and a brisk long line carrying echoes of Ogden Nash more often than Shakespeare. Critics will agree...
Aviators like to argue that various nationalities have distinct flying traits. Favorite assertions: that Japanese are poor pilots, Chinese good; that the methodical Germans are best at bombing, refusing to be drawn out of formation under attack like the hot-headed Italians. Russians are said to be careless about such perfunctory details as keeping gas tanks full, but have a wild Cossack flair for aerial dogfighting. Most curious fact about Russian aviation is that the men who best demonstrate the Russian genius for conquering the air have made their greatest successes...
...England leaders make efforts to keep more than the present proportion of college graduates in this region they will be doing a distinct disservice to the country at large. The places for Harvard men, for instance, are in Los Angeles, New Orleans, Milwaukee, and wherever else they originally come from, to say nothing of New York and Washington where there is more need for their talents than in Boston and Providence. The fact that more than half of the graduates of New England colleges seek employment here shows an inertia and lack of originality which the gifted New England educational...
...make straight, vertical lines. Cecile, the tallest, loves mirrors and red objects. Annette draws in sweeping circles. Yvonne paints spirals and is the most inventive. Lately their favorite game has been biting each other, and they know that the punishment for this is being sent to Coventry. Each has distinct color preferences (see front cover...