Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 21). That meant that although an employer could still hire whatever news or editorial worker he wished, the Guild would insist that the worker join the Guild within 30 days thereafter. Anyone refusing to join should be summarily dismissed. To Guildsmen such a ukase was more than a shade removed from the closed shop, wherein an employer may only hire from union ranks. But to embattled publishers, the Guild shop would be a closed shop, especially since the Guild now meant C.I.O. and John Llewellyn Lewis...
Immediately afterwards Seniors made their way in groups to a reception at the home of the President and Mrs. Conant, shaking his hand and hers and moving out into the garden, where punch, ice cream, and cake were served under the shade of the trees...
...calm his jumping rage at what he considered the gratuitous insults of the British Government, the Duke tried violently mowing hay on the chateau grounds, soon gave it up to sip tea under the shade trees of the terrace...
...There are three main divisions of the law: common or garden law, which seems to be made rather by the sun and shade than by the reasoning of man; equity, which the learned John Selden said depended upon the length of the Lord Chancellor's foot; and international law, which is a device made of sand, painted to look like iron...
...will bring you up a rose; and if he likes you he may give you one for "the Signore" free. Without superstition I think nowhere in Rome have I seen flowers so fresh and so seemingly content: as if perhaps they are conscious that here in the shade of one who loved beauty so well they are happy to pass their watery existence or be sold, as Fate ordains...