Word: sections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Live, Love and Learn (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) sends Robert Montgomery forth from a whimsical, penniless life in Manhattan's Washington Square section into battle against the stultifying wiles of Mammon. He is armed with artistic genius that "has something ostentatiously quiet about it," a facility with yellows unequaled since van Gogh and a respectable capacity for liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When...
From this early section the Journal jumps to 1832, when Delacroix accompanied a French diplomatic mission to Morocco. His notes on the most vivid adventure of his life are clipped, wholly objective, brilliantly businesslike, set down only to help him remember details of what he saw. Some of them are like a modern Imagist poem or a sketch for a cinema continuity: "The entrance to the castle: The Guardsmen in the court, the faÇade, the lane between two walls. At the end, under a sort of vault, men seated, making a brown silhouette against...
...Pass those November Hour Exams!" is the advice sung into the ears of Freshmen by worried parents and harried school principals every year at this time, and despite the monotony of the chant, it is sound counsel. For there can be no doubt that the instructors and section men take a general impression of every Freshman's work from the results of his first Hour Exams, an impression, be it good, bad, or indifferent, that is harder to change as the year wears on. But what those who watch others go into Hour exams for the first time fail...
Sport Geography. The U. S. game of football captured first the East, then the Midwest, then the Pacific Coast. As its conquest went on, great football teams sprang up in region after region to contest the supremacy of the sections where football first reigned. To the South football came later than to any other section. The University of Virginia, which is generally credited with starting the modern game of football in the South, sent a team to try out the North in 1890, two decades after the first intercollegiate game was played in New Brunswick, N. J. The test...
Consequently, the Rhode Island Constitution (Article 1, section 18) says: "The military shall be held in strict subordination to the civil authority. And the law martial shall be used and exercised in such cases only as occasion shall necessarily require...