Word: shade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Outstripped for sheer bulk only by cinema extravaganza or the Big Top itself, Jumbo is a megalomaniac medley of musicomedy and circus, with the circus gaining a shade the advantage. In point of fact, however, Producer Rose was presenting a show not intrinsically different from the sort of production which made the old Hippodrome world-famed. What justified Jumbo's extravagant ballyhoo was the fact that Mr. Rose has added all the mechanical and artistic improvements which the U. S. Theatre has evolved in the 15 years since the old Hippodrome ceased to function. Where the old Hippodrome shows...
Freshmen freezing in the shade...
Last week, Ohio State opened its Conference schedule against Northwestern, in a game that might have had a shade more significance if Northwestern had not lost to Purdue fortnight before. Undismayed, college authorities arranged a "Dad's Day" celebration. Male parents of all Ohio State students were welcomed to Columbus by Football Captain Gomer Jones, invited to a banquet. Fathers of football players, on the sidelines wearing the same numerals as their offspring, were introduced to the 43,000-crowd over loudspeakers...
...Trotsky, the Emperor of Japan and Mahatma Gandhi are the stars of the author's side show, with Communism cast as the Wild Man from Borneo, and Fascism "the grinning skull at the victor's post-war banquet." Hitler. Roosevelt, Stalin, Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal are a shade less formidable, while the Freemasons, J. P. Morgan. Chiang Kaishek, Baron Rothschild, Sir Henri Deterding, Michailoff, head of the Macedonian terrorists, are exploited as men of mystery engaged in sinister doings. So far as its direct political interpretation is concerned, the dominant message communicated by Our Lords and Masters...
...third claw was put in charge of her ablest colonial general. General Rodolfo Grazi-ani, hard bitten veteran of many a Libyan skirmish, was plowing north last week from Italian Somaliland at the head of mixed Italian and colonial troops. The terrain he will have to cross is a shade easier than that facing the other two armies, but the distance to his base, Mogadishu on the Indian Ocean, is almost twice as long, the difficulties of water, food and supplies almost twice as great. It is against him that Ethiopians have their best chance of a counterattack into Italian...