Word: milieu
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...Gary, she viewed the mechanical operations of steel working from a glass-inclosed moving observation platform, but descended from it to stand beside the thrilling cascades of moulten metal. Amid the glare of the furnaces her regal and commanding presence was revealed at last in an approximately iridescent milieu...
...hero refuses to tell why he killed the burly bootlegger; and the audience wonders why the wife of "The Governor of the State" pleads for a pardon on the grounds that the hero is "more sinned against than sinning." Act II: Cut back to the murder in a sprightly milieu of harlots and bootleggers like that in a prior hit, Broadway* (TIME, Sept. 27). Act III: So the bootlegger murdered by the hero was his f-th-r . . . and the Governor's wife was his m-th-r. . . . Shissh, Shussh! Off with the noose. A neatly meshed plot running...
...Captive. To the credit of the censors be it said, they have suffered to pass a frank sex drama based on one of the social milieu's unloveliest tragedies. It is a tense, well-constructed play, dealing with the plight of an Urning among men. The girl struggles against a homosexual compulsion with all the vigor of human will, only to succumb inevitably to her own nature, consumed entirely by Lesbian fires. Men, uncomprehending, fail to help her to escape from herself. She must return to her own. Perhaps the play's weakness lies in just the same...
...painting of himself as a leper leers down at him in a manner which he is said to find "exquisite." When the firebrand who seized Fiume strides out upon his lawn, the dreadnaught Puglia, placed there high and dry by the grateful Italian Government, affords him a milieu in which to pace the quarter deck of his extravagant soul. The home of d' Annunzio is a nestling spot for the prodigious and the absurd. That no spiritually played piano has previously been reported there is to be wondered...
...real in art and meets the world with dignity. It is the picture of a man who is true to himself and who will stand unyielding on his own high principles. I had seen him often in his home. It is in a man's home-his real milieu-that he is most himself. The outside world of business cares is far away. In his home I found Mr. Mellon a cultured gentleman, surrounded by the best in art, ancient and modern...