Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record in the U. S. Army-and his merely becoming involved in Hollywood's life for the first time & bad company-my husband, for whom I've gone through much to save from death begs me to state publicly-that if allowed-we will return to the scene of his errors-and donate our earnings-to the payment of all such debts-until they & our integrity are reestablished...
...sharks slashed at them, the other terror-stricken sailors drove off their tormentors. Finally Lieut. A. C. Keller spotted the survivors from his naval plane, dropped smoke bombs and plunged down in dangerous power dives which frightened off the sharks long enough for the Mendota to reach the scene, pull the exhausted mariners from the water 40 miles from the grave of the luckless Tzenny Chandris...
...remoteness of Bali protected it from foreign influence. He found on the walls of North Bali temples, cheek by jowl with bas-reliefs of gods and monsters, some comic-strip carvings showing a fat Dutchman drinking beer, a man cranking a car, a highway robbery modeled after a scene in a cinema...
...hours the body dangled from the scaffold as Beirut natives halted their early morning tasks to gaze on the grisly scene. Women milled about, bargaining with guards for a piece of the hanging rope, chattering that it was the best protection against barrenness...
Intellectually. Artist Blickenderfer's neo-scopes are ingenious. Effect of them is to place the spectator not at a framed "window'' but inside the scene painted. Artistically, as modest Artist Blickenderfer agrees, they are at best experimental...