Word: mortise
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
For examples, let's take two records by one band and see which is what and why. About a year and a half ago, Gene Krupa's band made a record called "I Know That You Know" (Brunswick). It was the first record they made, and as a matter of...
Adults who have been struck by lightning (see p. 18), overcome by carbon monoxide, shocked by an electric current, or submerged under water as long as half an hour, can often be "brought to life" again. Essential treatment is immediate and continuous artificial respiration. This month's issue of...
Wrote Planter Plunkett: "The accompanying pictures tell the story of what happened, and I need only mention what steps we took to see that there were no illusions. . . . We . . . photographed every position of the performer and from every angle. . . . I held a long stick, and from outside the circle passed...
TRAVELS IN TWO DEMOCRACIES-Ed-mund Wilson-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Records like Mark Sullivan's Our Times are valuable, as any competently edited newsreel is valuable. But, mechanics and editing aside, the strength and weakness of any newsreel is the man behind the camera. A purely objective view may...
Events are born as journalism, die as history. Journalist Mark Sullivan's Our Times is an attempt to delay the process, or at least to arrange the corpse's limbs decently before rigor mortis sets in. Journalist Sullivan knew the dear departed well, arranges the lights and shadows with a...