Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future was announced last week by Deputy WPAdministrator Aubrey Williams in a letter to Florida's Representative J. Mark Wilcox, promising $300,000 of WPA funds for the immediate erection of nine storm barracks. During the slack hurricane season, he said, the shelters will be the scene of teaching operations, church sociables...
...This scene, funny though it is, is not quite enough to make The Moon's Our Home diverting for the hour and 20 minutes it runs. Following the fashion, critics will doubtless credit Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell with the many knowing lines and pleasant minor touches, hold the lesser scribblers who worked on the picture responsible for such hackneyed characterizations as Henrietta Crosman as a termagant grandmother whose heart is secretly abrim with kindness and Charles Butterworth in his infinitely tiresome reproduction of an infinitely tired young...
...gentleman of 40 who went to France in 1917 with the 17th U. S. Engineers. Because he had been a newsreel cameraman, he was put to work filming cinemas for the military archives. During the St. Mihiel offensive, he perched his camera on a hill near enough to the scene of action to get himself wounded. After the War, Photographer Dickson got himself demobilized in France so he could go to Abyssinia and take pictures of lions. He also photographed war scenes among the Riffs. Then he drifted back to Paris. Armed with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor...
Last Sunday morning a Crimson editor, loyal as ever to the cradle in which he was reared, drove out to Groton to attend Easter services. The scene was Easter to the last degree, with the stained-glass windows, the brightly-scrubbed Gothic pillars, the staunch lilies, and the choir boys resplendent in what F. P. A. once called "red surpluses". When the collection plate came round, even that had a hallowed tone in keeping with the sacred morning. As it passed the Crimson editor, piled high with bounty, a white slip of paper detached itself from the pile of money...
Suddenly appearing on the scene one morning in the company of his bodyguard, a burly pugilist of no mean accomplishment, he confronted Miss Piscopo with several incoherent requests coupled with specious offers of bottled beverages. Bewildered by the curious situation, she referred him to the News Office...