Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late John Dillinger and Homer Van Meter may mutilate their fingertips with acid or otherwise until comparison with filed prints is highly difficult if not impossible. Dillinger and Van Meter did not succeed in preventing identification, but medical men agree that burning or surgery may obliterate the finger patterns entirely. Last week a bald, hulking criminologist named Carleton Simon expounded in great detail a method of identification which no criminal could circumvent without blinding himself. Dr. Simon would use the pattern of blood vessels in the circular backdrop of the eye. Almost infinitely various is this network in different people...
Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
Helen Jepson coached with Garden, simulated the Garden costumes, scrupulously followed the Garden pattern as she changed from glittering courtesan to penitent nun. So far as externals went, Helen Jepson had learned her lesson well. She sang pleasantly and surely, acted more easily than did rich-voiced John Charles Thomas who has had twice her stage experience. But for many a Chicagoan the Jepson impersonation was too careful an imitation of the one her teacher gave. Jepson's good looks were beguiling but she seemed the shadow of Garden as she made her queenly entrance, shamelessly attempted to seduce...
...biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance is sometimes involved and cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution of the art as it is currently known. He begins with primitive tribes which danced instinctively to celebrate birth, adolescence, fertility...
...parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after he had distributed presents brought from the ends of the earth, he announced his determination, there was no conflict. Solace's parents surrendered her without a struggle. The anticlimax sets the pattern for Silas Crockett, third novel of Mary Ellen Chase, 48, Smith College English professor, whose Mary Peters was one of last year's more durable bestsellers. Covering the history of the Crockett family from 1830 to 1933, it is packed with data on U. S. shipping, describes in detail the fate...