Word: motifs
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...announce what is to follow. Thereafter there are no spoken words or titles. The cellos are portentous when Henry Ford's face appears on the screen. It fades out to reveal a plant interior, flashes of molten metal, men at work. A bouncing little refrain is the motif of the Ford engine, repeated every time, the motor is shown. As the automobile is slowly assembled the music melodically suggests hammering, welding, tapping, grinding...
...Italian motif dominates the 22 buildings of Indiana limestone and white-washed brick. In the blue of a long pond glitter the glass & aluminum of two bird houses and a reptile house. A bug house, first in the U. S., is half completed. It will hold everything from amebas to high invertebrates...
...outside and has a charming interior of Georgian finish. The story has it that one of the professors in the College took the matter so to heart that he had a dressing gown made with one that harmonized with the Gothic and the other with the Georgian motif. His only problem now is to sit with the right side exposed when he studies by the window...
...Columbia Broadcasting Orchestra will be the feature of the Lowell House Dance, Friday, May 11. With the orchestra will be Harriet Hilliard, radio star on the Joe Penner program. Previous plans for the dance were scrapped last night, and it was decided to decorate the dining hall in modernistic motif...
...without its attractions: Mr. Mencken drawing a weekly stipend for turning out D.A.R. brochures, Senor Rivera naturalized and dotting the public parks of the land with equestrian General Pershings, a qualified muralist doing over the replastered Dartmouth Library walls with an "I pledge Allegiance to My Flag" motif . . . and subsidized humorists doing what they can with...