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...most successful recent use of expressionism is in the Theatre Guild's production of Ibsen's astonishing poetic drama, Peer Gynt. Full-grown people live in dwarfed houses; deserts are indicated by a suggestion of sand; fjords, oceans, mountains become a pile of cubist rocks and a blue line on the backdrop...
...explanation is intelligible enough to anyone acquainted with the laws of electricity, but to the layman the whole affair remains "miraculous": The aeroplane carried a cargo of about eighty pounds of sand grains which were charged with static electricity by means of a wind driven generator. At a height of 500 feet above the tops of the cloud, these sand particles were scattered abroad by the propeller, so that they gradually settled upon the cloud-mass below. The interaction of opposite electric charges between sand and moisture particles caused a condensation, and the clouds changed to rain, leaving a clear...
...fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West; and if he had he would...
...influence dominant, and not until a few years ago, when the rule requiring a reading knowledge of Latin for entrance to college was repealed, was its full meaning apparent. Even now to most minds a liberal education, without a knowledge of Latin, is like the house built upon sand,--without a solid foundation...
...pictured ocean, piers, real sand, snappy shops, etc. all different with many colored awnings, wheel chairs, theatre with performances twice daily. "The Hut" in the basement with its cafeteria, and war mementos, fortune tellers, salt water taffy, and countless other attractions will give the people of New England many of the experiences of a trip to Atlantic City, with none of the inconveniences of traveling...