Word: patchwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airspeed Envoy monoplane Stella Australis (Star of Australia), an unprepossessing craft in which to attempt the hazardous flight from California to Australia. Her lack of power and last-minute patchwork of fabric, however, failed to perturb Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm, who had made the Pacific crossing in 1928 with Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith in the Southern Cross. Said he: "I don't intend to get my feet...
...more important than the commander's personal tragedy are the remarkable battle sequences in the last reel, an international patchwork of action shots enterprisingly assembled and cleverly welded. Russian-born Léon Garganoff and some of his fellow émigrés in Paris started an unpretentious photographic laboratory called Société Anonyme Lianofilm, made enough profit to try a picture. Garganoff sent Nicholas Farkas, his crack cameraman, to Japan. Farkas made a close study of aristocratic Japanese interiors, got shots of harbors cluttered with boats, of Japanese street crowds. He claimed that he made films...
Focus of the fight was: 1) a mass of detailed criticism of particular NRA codes from the Darrow artillery; 2) an equally detailed counter-volley from NRA's Counsel, Donald Richberg. Mr. Darrow was for a strong Leftward swing by NRA toward Socialism. General Johnson stoutly defended the patchwork job he had done for Capitalism. Mr. Sinclair engaged in a flanking fire upon the Darrow board's methods and conclusions. The gist of their viewpoints...
...seen at work as this throng hung upon his words. Yet there was little in them that was new- perhaps there is little he needs to say that would be new to an audience that never seems to tire of the old. "At most this speech was a patchwork of past phrases, old catchwords and well-worn arguments. . . ." Ambulance...
There was something new under a sun that rose one morning last week over Washington. Whether it was a permanent device for settling labor disputes or only a patchwork quilt under which old forces would continue their struggle in secret, no man knew for sure...