Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not the rebel delegation, if it appears on the scene, will be granted recognition is a matter of conjecture. At any rate, an atmosphere of excitement will prevail at the opening Assembly meeting as the result of a heated debate over the credentials of the Ethiopian and Spanish delegations...
...present King quickly replied with perfect truth, "You can tell your firm that I make my own films of my daughters." Newsreel companies never know when he will call up to borrow a $45,000 sound camera, truck and delighted, grinning crew to help their King & Emperor shoot a scene...
...William Rush, the first native wood carver of sufficient ability and reputation to be known as a sculptor, was at work on the first public fountain figure ever erected in the U. S., using, so far as records show, the first living female model. Years later the scene was painted by famed Thomas Eakins in one of his better canvases...
Covering the event from the press box on top of the grandstand, were the ablest reporters in the U. S. Wrote Grantland Rice, dean of U. S. sportswriters: ". . . Rosemont and Seabiscuit should lead the chase. . . ." Columnist Sidney Skolsky described the scene when the bugle blew for the parade to the post: "The . . . track was so crowded there almost wasn't room enough for the horses. . . ." At the post, it took three and a half minutes to get the field of 18 in line. Then, in a sudden hush, the line began to move and the crowd to roar. What...
Fischer has been considered as one of the more capable European reporters and an able observer of the Russian scene...