Word: interior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protagonist in whiskers to resemble George Bernard Shaw. Thus disguised, Actor Philip Bourneuf talks his way brilliantly through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium on the ground that his ineffectiveness is caused not by too much...
...same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined all Russia's important Commissars and their wives, ending the night's festivities with a showing of the cinema Naughty Marietta. Another time he wound up the season's social program with a dinner for three rarely dined Red Army marshals...
...piece of maple. This year, Artist Blumenschein's contribution was a populous piece called Ourselves and Taos Neighbors, in which celebrities like Mabel Dodge Luhan, the late D. H. Lawrence, Mr. & Mrs. Blumenschein, are planted as stiffly as figures in a family portrait in a maple-colored adobe interior. Typical of the surprises hidden among the 417 pieces in the show was the work of 42-year-old Novelist Ramon Guthrie, Scherzo from the Proud City: a reverential study of 19th Century French Critic Sainte-Beuve...
...possible to install a pressurized cabin on the DC-4, now being tested, there is nothing to be gained by doing so. ... All subsequent models will come out with that feature built in. Necessary additions ... do not change either the basic structure of the airplane or its interior arrangement...
...Designed to maintain low altitude interior conditions in the substratosphere...