Word: scenically
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...will never be able to thank Nature enough for the scenic setting it has given to our beautiful city. It nestles in the grandeur of the stately hills which line the lazy Mississippi River along its upper reaches and is distinctly not on the "sweetgrass prairie," where TIME wishes to place...
...young Florence Nightingale variety of missionary, is convincing but on the verge of presenting a caricature rather than a real person. Her stage brother, missionary-clergyman-doctor, is on the point of the ridiculous, but he is not seen often. One of the picture's outstanding features is magnificent scenic photography of the Pacific archipelago where most of the story takes place...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
...Sisters (Warner Bros.) substitutes for Dreiserian strength, tenacity and patience;-chief merits of the Myron Brinig novel from which it was adapted-the cinematically more essential merits of pace, tidiness and scenic value. Opening at an election-night ball in the mining town of Silver Bow, Mont, in the year 1904, the picture traces the lives of half-a-dozen of the guests, ending, for no particular reason, when they meet again to get the early returns in 1908. Ostensibly its three heroines are Louise, Helen, and Grace Elliott, daughters of Silver Bow's druggist, but before much footage...
...press conference one morning last week, Franklin Roosevelt sprang one of those dramatic surprises which take away the breath even of those who see him frequently. Having just disposed of a question about the international difficulties of preserving the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls, the President blandly announced that he had found a memorandum on utilities left with him last November by Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Willkie (TIME, Dec. 6). At that time Mr. Willkie had a long talk with the President, leaving him with a brief, specific plan for composing their difficulties...