Word: scattered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria the Japanese regularly load trains with seeds, cinemas, drygoods, hardware and propagandists, dispatch them to the back districts for the edification of incredulous Chinese. In the U. S. railroad peddling has been largely confined to private cars in which crack executives tour the land, scatter cheer to underlings and big customers. Last autumn Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank led a long goodwill mission around the borders of the U. S. in a private car with his nephew Nelson Rockefeller as Exhibit A (TIME, Dec. 24). But not until last fortnight when Chicago's Marshall Field...
...dipping their hands into his hat. A slip of paper told each man which 40 acres, barring swaps, failure or despair, were to be his home until he died. Without a stop to look at their new land, the 136 new colonists pitched in to help unload the train, scatter farm equipment and household goods among eight temporary tent colonies...
...going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...first a bustled lady of 1880, the mistress of "Tall Trees," rejecting an old flame's advances even though her worthless husband is busy dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then...
With scenes perhaps more hauntingly realistic than even the most devoted Cervantes lover could imagine, the English version of the foreign-made "Don Quixote" comes to the Majestic screen. The most popular escapades of the scatter-brained knight-errant have been chronicled; they assume full stature due in most part to the photographic genius of Nicholas Farkas. Every shot conspires to emphasize the romantic Knight of the Mournful Countenance; landscapes receive the treatment of the Old Masters so that all interest converges on Don Quixote...