Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shade over six feet tall and able to look taller, Philip Merivale has a deep, rich voice which wraps itself expertly around the most ponderous periods. He has a self-confident way of handling capes, cloaks and togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...
There is one ghost that stamps itself unforgettably on The Return of Peter Grimm: the shaggy white-haired shade of the late David Belasco, its original author, director and producer. When in 1911 Belasco turned out this play, he put so much of himself into it that he used to confide to friends: "Like Shakespeare, this, I think, will live forever." Defying two theatrical decades, The Return of Peter Grimm continues to fulfill its author's boast...
...tennis fame by getting a Hollywood contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last autumn, spent the winter trying to act and flattering young cinema executives by playing tennis with them. In the three major tournaments he has entered this summer, Shields has indicated that he is, if anything, a shade better than he was a year ago, when he was ranked No. 1. He hits the hardest serve and probably the fastest forehand drive in tennis, suffers from a temperamental inability to take the game more seriously than any other pastime which he finds agreeable...
...Same day Representative O'Connor moved to get his investigation afoot with a $50,000 appropriation for expenses, Senator Black demanded $150,000 for a job that would throw the House show into the shade. To even matters, Senator Black got only a third of what he asked...
...stalwart male attendants treated him like a spoiled child. He objected to being politely addressed as Mr. Seabrook by people who were deaf to his complaints, objected to having the light burn in his room all night, objected more loudly when attendants removed the bathrobe he had used to shade the light...