Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol. Wholesale warehouses, a cheap hotel, automobile showrooms, a Chinese restaurant and an undertaking shop occupied the row of old ugly brick buildings on this site. The U. S. had bought up the land as part of its plan to beautify the Federal City (TIME. May 6, 1929). The plot was to be converted into a park. Wreckers had knocked the walls out of the buildings when the B. E. F. began to arrive last May. Brigadier General Pelham Glassford. Washington's long-legged, kindly police chief, arranged to halt demolition, have veterans quartered in the skeletonized buildings. With Congress...
Like Democrats and Republicans, Socialists mix politics and picnics, forensics and fun. Some 25,000 of them last week flocked to Ulmer Park, a big bare, boarded plot near Brooklyn's Coney Island, for an all-day political outing to start their party's national campaign. Working families brought boxes of coarse sandwiches, pickles and fruit. Hot dog stands did a sizzling business. Youngsters played on swings, rode the merry-go-round. Their parents lolled on newspapers listening to band music or strolled off to watch a soccer game. Trade groups sang songs. Broadway performers gave a free show...
...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...
...grip of Man and remorseless Nature. Nanook of the North did it in 1922. Grass did it in 1925 for the nomads of central Asia, The Silent Enemy for the Amerindian in 1930. Grass was a symphonic study in time, space, herds and mountains. The Silent Enemy used a plot, a love triangle. Igloo follows the evolved formula of love against a landscape. Otherwise it is an unrelieved stagger through snow...
...second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing, is a sequence of short story-like sketches. These episodes are telescoped into homogeneity by the accidents of her plot rather than by its design...