Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dated May 13, 1775, readers learned of "skirmishes" in New England which had taken place April 19. One despatch, unsigned, read: "I have taken up my pen to inform you, that last night, at about eleven o'clock, 1,000 British troops fired upon the provincials. . . . Yesterday produced a scene the most shocking New England has ever beheld. . . . The first advice we had was about 8 o'clock in the morning, when it was reported that the troops had fired upon and killed five men in Lexington." Another despatch of the same date said: "The reports of the unhappy affair...
...rathäusers telegraphed Commander Eckener that the trip could not be a success unless the Graf Zeppelin visited the second U. S. city, climbed porches, poles and pinnacles. Photographers Robert Hartman and Baron von Perckhammer aboard the ship "nearly went crazy trying to do photographic justice to the scene." Then to Detroit she went, where lay the new little all-metal dirigible (TIME, Sept. 2). Dr. Eckener stopped eating caviar & bread to exclaim: "I never saw such tremendous cities as there are in America." A breath of Canadian air, and then came Cleveland at midnight...
...Shearer appeared on the Washington scene in 1924 as a naval expert, the inventor of a one-man torpedo. When the U. S. S. Washington was towed off the Virginia Capes for sinking by airplane bombs, he rushed into court, vainly sought an injunction to prevent the Navy from destroying this vessel under the terms of Washington Arms Treaty. Later he admitted that Publisher William Randolph Hearst, Anglophobe, had paid the cost of that empty exploit...
...years Camden alone has been the scene of Campbell's soup harvest. But even as last week the fragrance of tomatoes drifted through Camden's streets, a new Campbell Kitchen was getting into production in Chicago. As yet the Chicago Kitchen is barely under way, but it covers 22 acres, will have eventually a capacity as great as that at Camden, not to mention the advantage of being one thousand miles nearer the millions of soup-bibbers who dwell west of the Mississippi River...
Getting Even is a play by Nathaniel Wilson who explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...