Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched in red, green, black, with which he has stubbornly experimented for the past ten years...
...horse-drawn vans, collecting food as well as money. Today each house has a trim truck, in which sisters may spend a day, eating box lunches en route. Energetic, the Little Sisters used to feel that it was wrong to make use of such labor-savers; only in the past decade have they permitted elevators, electric lights, electric washers and cleaners to be installed in their big New York homes...
...horror were still two severed hands clutching the barbed wire, Lew Ayres stabbing a poilu in a shell hole, then trying to save him. But its conscientious producers tried to improve the masterpiece. Improvement No. 1: instead of opening with the mute, reproachful faces of dead soldiers, trooping past in an endless file of ghosts until they vanish in the sky, they began it with a historical newsreel, flashing back to the Kaiser reviewing goosestepping troops, the Lusitania sinking, etc. Improvement No. 2: a commentator to interrupt the picture at significant moments, ram home obvious points about peace...
...Morocco when civil war strands dark, sultry-eyed, plump-lipped Brenda Ballard (Newcomer Brenda Marshall) in his consulate. When Barry returns to Washington for a stretch at the foreign service school, he takes femme fatale Brenda with him. Though she is more suspicious as a woman with no past at all than many a woman with one, Career Diplomat Barry very undiplomatically marries her. But Brenda is pledged to an exclusive spy ring, continues to be tapped by them even when she turns a cold but lovely shoulder. When her spy fiends (who all resemble Nazis) request her to snitch...
Lately, Author MacDonnell has gained notice for himself (and bank) by a blank-verse stand against isolation: "For twelve months past we have called Great Britain coward, traitor, dolt, because she did not jump into a war. We chalked her down a third-rate power, we pilloried appeasement, we covered her with lavish scorn-too old and dead to fight; and when at last she draws the sword, we turn our backs...