Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Axelsson saw three and heard reliably of six Rightist submarines which base their activities at Majorca. These flew the Rightist flag but "the natives," cabled Observer Axelsson, "naïvely and frankly suggested that the big ones might have been bought from Italy...
...Theatre Guild decided to produce Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman. Its chief characters were a married actor and actress, its theme a test of fidelity. The Guild's canny Theresa Helburn saw the piquant possibilities of casting a happily-married stage couple in the parts. The tremendous success of The Guardsman led to 14 more such pairings. The Lunts are now known throughout the U. S. as the leading Mr. and Mrs. of the theatre...
...means of X-ray and infrared photographs of twelve paintings and seven wash drawings. La Blanchisseuse and most of the other paintings were done on wood. Messrs. Rosen and Marceau discovered that each of the X-rayed wood panels had been scratched over as if by a fine-toothed saw, producing a texture like that of woven fabric. This gave a firm grip to the ground of gesso (whiting and glue) on which the paintings were made. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, this appeared to be a characteristic and unique practice of Daumier...
...TIME, Sept. 18, 1933). The tribunal declared that the triple healing was "a wonder performed by supernatural power as sign of some special mission, and explicitly ascribed to God." In Manhattan last fortnight declared Dr. Horan, a Catholic: "The average man does not believe in miracles. I saw...
...noted for fancy clothes and phoney congratulations. The first showing of the Department of Agriculture's documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River was in the same small...