Word: framework
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Written in a style of Gothic complication and detail, the book possesses, though it does not awkwardly exhibit, a sturdy framework of research and knowledge. It does exhibit many flying buttresses of outside inquiry into the lives of the minor members of the cast (George Germain, General Gates, the Continental Commander Charles Lee) and many gargoyles of antique wit quoted from the talk of the coffeehouses, the clubs, the theatres of the day or from the author's own invention. Praised by many critics, it caused Frank Sullivan, playboy of the New York World, to join the old, outmoded...
...Flesh (Emil Jannings). Not Samuel Butler's famed novel but Perley Poore Sheehan's little-known story supplies the framework of the great German actor's first U. S.-made film.* It concerns one August Schiller, who flourished in Milwaukee back in the days when gentlemen associated that town with beer, and when ladies carried muffs. The first half of the film shows him a pillar of society, plain, foursquare, sunk in a large family. A doting father of six, a pompous cashier in his bank, a champion bowler, he is admirable in all things, full...
Around the platforms, which were at two levels, stretched on steel framework at an angle producing an optical illusion of startling actuality, was the 402 x 45-ft. oil painting, "La Panthéon de la Guerre" (TIME, May 2), showing last week for the first time outside of Paris...
...undertaking the trip I already had received assurance from the Government of Jugoslavia that no hindrance would be placed on Hungarian goods enroute across Jugoslavia to Fiume. Naturally the agreements arrived at upon this point and supplementing our new treaty of friendship with Italy are only the foundation and framework of a system of friendly cooperation the details of which will be worked out singly as occasion arises...
...Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly accordant with the available documentary evidence, but shall none the less bear the imprint of an imaginative recreation...