Word: seales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patience, to create good dioramas. First, a hunter has to bag some subjects worth putting on display. After that, at least four experts are needed: a taxidermist to make the animals look alive again, a propmaker and a landscape painter to imitate their native surroundings, and a cabinetmaker to seal the whole display under glass...
Jessel hits his last sequence like a drummer going into a sock chorus. Lotta is in mid-performance in a big New York theater. A letter arrives, seeming to seal the death of her lover in a Southern hospital. Suddenly her father (Hoofer James Barton) rushes in to announce that the war is over. Tearfully, Lotta goes to the center of stage and sings a mournful chorus of Dixie to the outrage of the audience. Her partner (Dennis Day) steps out of the wings, gives the New Yorkers a lecture that echoes Lincoln's "malice toward none," and soon...
...fund bonds. When they were sent to New York for checking, the bank was told that the bonds were counterfeit. The FBI went to work while the New York Stock Exchange warned investors of printing errors in the counterfeits: a narrow white border, a mottled look on their green seal, breaks in the crossing on capital...
...Casablanca, mobs rushed the polling places, and heaved paving blocks. Before election day was over, six Moroccans were dead from police bullets, the polling places were deserted, the election was a flop, and the French moved in Senegalese troops to seal off the native quarter...
...last witness was a zoologist from London's Natural History Museum. With scientific objectivity, he knocked down all the theories: that the monster might be a seal, a giant eel, or anything else known to science. But he did not say categorically that the monster cannot exist. The earth, he admitted, may contain many things undreamed of by zoologists...