Word: fleetingness
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Show Business At War (THE MARCH OF TIME) is a seven-league-boot coverage of the theatrical profession's wide and generous war activity, from Times Square to Hollywood. The film covers a little too much: the production of the various Army & Navy film units may or may not...
Sport for Deflection. While the student learns his guns in the classroom, he also learns to shoot with real weapons from his first week, usually becomes so enamored of his subject that he never wants to go to town, always calls himself "gunner." Shooting begins against fixed targets with .22...
Said he: "Just a man of wrath, such as Kansas often develops, as for instance old John Brown. Wrath in Kansas has moved more men to wreck their lives and fan the flames of fleeting fame than have been glorified in most States. This is the case of the old...
So, instead of erasing the lines of his bomb-threatened factory in a hazy chiaroscuro of paint and props, today's camoufleur makes it look like something else (an innocent farmhouse or a block of houses). He hopes to disguise all nearby landmarks, to give the surrounding terrain an...
War pressure can have one of two effects. It can shatter a nation into violent factions whose simple noise and passion give them fleeting leadership over the uniformed mass, till the state is like a tightrope walker who stands still and violently waves his arms until he falls. Or war...