Word: portrays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exaggerated a bit the space between the wealthy and the other classes and the insurmountability of the social barriers; but he had to, in order to make his point evident. This director of ours knew that he faced a problem, realising that each one of his actors had to portray his role so that the public could get the significance of the theme and the subtletics involved. Judging from the results, the director was as intelligent as the author; for, "Philadelphia Story" is easily one of the top shows...
they should portray the romance and adventure of flying instead of ... comfort and speed. So he gave my theory a test and it proved out-at least we are . . . married and the advertising is being changed." Marriage Revealed. Hilda Jane Lehman, 19, adopted daughter of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman; and Boris de Vadetsky, 27, onetime WPA actor, World War II ambulance driver; after eloping to Elkton, Md., Dec. 1. The Governor, declared his secretary, knew his son-in-law "only slightly." Died. C. Harold Wills, 62, automotive pioneer and founder of the old Wills...
...largest brokerage house in the U. S." Ralph B. Strassburger, of Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania was listed by Transocean as the only person taking two subscriptions. Mr. Strassburger, owner of the Norristown, Pa. Times Herald, later appeared in the report as distributor of the First German White Paper, intended to portray Ambassador William C. Bullitt as a warmonger. The Dies Committee told that Publisher Strassburger backed it and distributed 17,000 copies at a cost of $4,250, because of his "personal dislike" for Ambassador Bullitt...
...drew a cartoon a week for the New York Herald Tribune. Now he works for the afternoon tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that he could portray his employer, Mr. Hearst, as an evil-looking dispenser of "seedition" (sowing seeds marked "cowardice" and "treason"). An obvious likeness of Hearst, although it did not bear his name, the cartoon appeared in Hearstpapers. Last week Louis Raemaekers hoped to shape U. S. opinion in World...
...perish." Main job facing the schools, said the Commission, is mobilization for moral defense. Its proposals: American Dream: "The American people . . . have taken their blessings for granted . . . lack a clear perception of what is at stake. . . . Education can help to clarify the nature and goals of democracy. It can portray the American dream of a nation with liberty, justice and opportunity for all . . . develop in all citizens deep and abiding loyalties to the central values of democracy. . . ." Authority: "Must the American people, for the period of the emergency, place the authority to decide issues of national policy in the hands...