Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made rocks and trees." The folk story elements are as authentically saturated with mood as though this were serious drama instead of a light cinema with warmish music. What is most original about Banjo On My Knee is that the tunes never separate the story from its pattern but are cued in so as to help the feeling. It also permits able Helen Westley who, as a stand-by of the New York Theatre Guild, was noted for her interpretation of squalid roles, to reach a new low in this respect. A shabby pioneer in Green Grow the Lilacs...
...first white men to see Death Valley searched for gold while fleeing for their lives, thereby setting a pattern that prospectors into that dismal region have followed ever since. On Christmas Day, 1849, a party of emigrants in 27 wagons known as the Sand-Walking Company, lost while trying to find a short cut from Salt Lake City to San Bernardino, Calif., entered the Valley by way of Furnace Creek and never got out. Ahead of the Sand-Walkers there was a band of young men, traveling in 20 wagons, unencumbered by women or children, known as the Jayhawkers...
Journalists covering the King were alert to note any departure from the pattern of his visits as Prince of Wales. These were distinguished by a boyish informality in fraternizing with and calling upon members of the toiling masses unexpectedly and at random. The ever-young Prince of Wales visibly lacked manly interest in actual proposals and specific complaints drafted by leaders of the masses-such as shop councils and aldermanic bodies of depression-stricken towns. These hoped last week that the now 42-year-old King would give them repeated and serious audience on his tour and they were disappointed...
...Radical Cabinet, from their refuge in Valencia, rushed food and ammunition back to their Madrid comrades by railroad, for a successful sally by the Red militia had resulted in effective communications being reopened between Madrid and the seacoast. As 40 new Red planes of an unmistakable French pattern roared over the Capital, thousands rushed into the streets to welcome them with hysterical cheers...
...substantial, if not entirely vocal body of student opinion which denies Harvard's superiority as an undergraduate institution. These students wonder if the College will ever again see a Bliss Perry or a Charles Townsend Copeland, and whether the educational ideas of Harvard are not being transformed into a pattern which may eventually resemble that of the Carnegie Foundation...