Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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It is in the detailed, usually comic portraits of minor characters, and in a Dickensian wealth of incident that Author Mann most openly and ably copies the Victorians. Grope's second employer, the bookdealer, gives all his time to painting ridiculous pictures which he considers masterpieces; his garrulous wife infuriates...
Baldish, button-chinned Arthur Brisbane leads a quiet life consisting mostly of reading, writing and real estate. But lately he had an experience which moved him deeply. In the pantry of his house he came upon a mouse caught in a trap. Next day he made eight paragraphs out of...
While the Coughlin incident may well have illustrated to Columbia officials the difficulties to be encountered in selling time for religious broadcasting, their new policy closely corresponds to the one followed by National Broadcasting Co. since its formation in 1926. NBC donates about 32 hours a week to religious broadcasts...
Germany's peripatetic statesmen found the Eternal City bleak but enthusiastic. They had come from Berlin in an ordinary sleeping car. At the Brenner Pass they found a special train of six cars put at their disposal by Premier Mussolini. At the station in Rome, Il Duce was waiting for...
Director von Sternberg, neither creator nor translator, had the insoluble problem of duplicating a masterpiece in a medium which it was not meant to fit. The string of hasty sequences with which the picture replaces the first volume of the novel fails to make Clyde Griffiths excitingly alive, "unless the...