Word: motif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sweet, good country lass she appeared to be in the shady bowers of Bretagne but really first assistant crook to Count Boris Zanko, Parisian archcriminal? When he discovers the truth, he calls her several bad names; and she, irritated, embarks upon revenge, thereby providing a Salome motif. Her weapon will be Count Boris, best swordsman in France. The thoroughgoing depravity of this fellow may best be understood when it is explained that he is Russian. In the end, however, love conquers...
...opening exercises will be conducted in the open courtyard in the center of the building. This courtyard has been carried out in Italian traventine, and has a double arcade with Doric pilasters below and Ionic pilasters and columns above, this motif running around all four sides. The model for this double arcade has been furnished by the front of the presbytery of the Church of the Madonna di San Biazio, by Antonio da San Gallo at Montepulciano...
Underground Motif. Among potent U. S. import-export houses information circulated last week, that the German delegation at Geneva has been instructed to sound out the U. S. delegation upon the possibility of an understanding between the U. S. Administration and the German chemical and other trusts. Prospectively the question will be asked whether lower U. S. tariffs can possibly be obtained on certain German goods, in return for favors of an equal value to U. S. businessmen from the German trusts...
...Davidson's statue shows the influence of "The Covered Wagon" motif and hence will no doubt be popular in the balloting. His tall spare woman leans forward as she scrutinizes the prairie horizon for her Dan'l, who is probably delayed during a storm at Faro Pete's Saloon. The character might well be stolen from Fannie Hurst. She is not so vivid as his famed "Call To Arms" figure which everyone remembers as the woman with her feet planted flat, her arms upraised, mouth wide in battle call to France. Mr. Davidson, born and reared...
Beyond these a different motif enters into the stories which follow. Formerly the dream element gave us a vision of fair women or of a knock-'em-down contest between lions and dragons. Forsooth, we do those things better in our day, when on the stage you will find cubistic representations of the sub-conscious mind in action. Pop the lights on and off, revolve them in circles of green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick...