Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stumble haltingly," said Publisher George Bruce of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury. "There was a burst of blue-black smoke. The parade broke for a distance of 100 yards. For a moment everything was quiet. Then the Japanese soldiers began scattering to both sides of the street. The exact time...
...political bigwigs as Warner's astute publicity department could coax into the theatre. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was invited but did not attend. Had she been there, however, she would probably not have been offended by this candid camera record of female Washington. First Lady is an almost exact celluloid reproduction of the play by Katharine Dayton and George S. Kaufman on which it is based. Its quips are badinage rather than satire, and direct their wit at the immemorial field of petticoat intrigue rather than at any particular person...
...addition, there were blank order sheets and memoranda stolen from army officials, a list of buildings having several exits, an exact plan of the Paris sewers with passages leading to the Chamber, plans of the interiors of buildings occupied by Leftist newspapers and plans of the apartments of Socialist Deputies...
...Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose exact significance cannot be determined from the text...
This week at Manhattan's Morton Galleries, interested visitors stood peering into the insides of six hemispheres a yard in diameter, made of papier mache. Each could be raised or lowered on its stand to fix the spectator's eye in the exact centre, even with the rim. Then by rolling his eyes the gallerygoer could see painted on the inside of the hemisphere everything that had come within the painter's field of vision when he looked wide-eyed at his subject. Responsible for this unique artistic experience was a freckled, 31-year-old artist named...