Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boots, was more cheerful. Since His Majesty's horse is also affected by noise, the audience of 50,000 was requested not to cheer until he had safely dismounted. Then pandemonium burst from loyal throats in cheer on cheer while the Royal Field Marshal was got in the shade of a pavilion and 9,000 warriors-a full-strength British war division-began marching, trotting, speeding and clanking past. Over one-half of this modern Army display was not afoot or ahorse. So-called "motor cavalry" dashed past in light cars. Heavy tanks saluted the King Emperor by turning...
Attilio's first design for the Italian Building's glass panel Mr. Rockefeller thought a shade "too servile." An honest workman, Attilio redesigned it, eliminating two shoveling workmen and putting in the motto in Italian, "Art is Labor, Labor...
...Insull fled Chicago for Greece, the power industry in a fine show of hindsight set out to reform its trade associations. In the public's mind the old National Electric Light Association was linked with unconscionable private propaganda and the name of the domineering Midwest utilitarian. Invoking the shade of their more saintly patron, the powermen reconstituted their body as the Edison Electric Institute. Leadership passed to the great power companies of the so-called Morgan-Drexel-Bonbright group-a shift calculated in those days to inspire nothing if not complete public confidence...
...SHADE-Clarence Cason-University of North Carolina Press...
...whole South had a much more bitter pill to swallow, this time coated with no Yankee sugar. Clarence Cason was a native son, able head of the department of journalism at the University of Alabama, and respectfully regarded by his fellow-Tuscaloosans. In 90° in the Shade he drew a biting "psychograph" of the South. Even unreconstructed Southerners admitted that its lines paralleled the facts but called it a graphic misrepresentation...