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Word: portrayal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject of the Pope's radio broadcast, I think the editor of TIME was more nearly right in endeavoring to portray the awe and reverence shown by pious Catholics at hearing the voice of the Holy Father, than your correspondent, Mr. Conner (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Also In This Issue, Mar. 30, 1931 | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...performance tremendously. I thought it very well presented. It sparkled and sizzled with dramatic interest-particularly that section of your broadcast devoted to the story of the sale of the New York World. When this story was first announced I was a bit dubious that any radio presentation could portray the news of the day in a fashion as interesting, alive and fascinating as you handled these matters in the columns of TIME. But I see that once again you have succeeded in tack- ling a difficult task and making it register with a thud. Once again-congratulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 23, 1931 | 3/23/1931 | See Source »

...flowing elements that find artistic expression in character, scene, and action. Modestly he wonders whether perhaps he has "only painted a landscape and some people--men and women reading the earth under the quandary of the sky." Out of the compromise that must always result between the intention to portray life and achieving that portrayal arises the village of Midland and its inhabitants. Ab Carver with his big laughter, the blind Wilbur Allen, and Bruce Durken who, true to melodramatic tradition died in the final burning of the church about which the story is woven and to which...

Author: By S. P. F., | Title: BOOKENDS | 3/21/1931 | See Source »

...kernels of corn for the hungry child, the drippings from the mouth of the merciful mule! . . . These people are going to suffer beyond the power of human language to portray. . . . When did these picayunish objections to feeding the hungry first appear? They appeared when the income tax payers became afraid of an increase in taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Misery Question | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

Four universities has Manila: University of Santo Tomas (founded 1619, oldest under U. S. domain), University of the Philippines, National University, University of Manila. The little brown students of Manila are fond of moving pictures, especially ones which portray luscious Hollywood white girls making love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mood-Sharpening in Manila | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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