Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lace-frill motif in valentines is decidedly on its way out," one stationer said. "That type is apparently joining the old comic valentine which disappeared several years ago. The modern valentine is becoming clean-cut and the ones with a touch of humor are the most popular...
Potter Palmer's greatest contributions to U. S. social history were the silver dollar motif for barroom floors and his Chicago home at No. 1350 Lake Shore Drive.* Last week, after a lapse of three years, the great castellated pile that he plunked down on a sand dune in 1882 was repossessed by his family...
...angular arms about to build up choral climaxes which helped atone for the weak orchestral moments. The Puritans' rugged, hymnlike theme dominated but there was a fetching, comic interlude when the Cavaliers fed firewater to the Indians, prepared for a May Pole dance on Merry Mount. The love-motif for Wrestling Bradford sounded strangely like "Limehouse Blues...
...contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made up of four ''strikes'' or blows. One of the important tasks of the officials was to straighten out the rapiers, at times bent almost double by the terrific blows. The motif of the whole performance is absolute seriousness...
Crowds swarm down the midway, full of booths with popcorn, and whirling wheels; banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...