Word: shading
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Litvinov Pact All peace pacts are nebulous, the Kellogg-Briand Pact notably so. Last week the Litvinov Pact, as presented by its author in the form of a draft protocol, was seen to be a shade less nebulous than most. Full text...
...like them, began to despair of righteous people, to disbelieve in the value of reform. Some (but they would be illadvised) might take him for a cynic. In his estimates of the history he shared he is realistic; only in his prophecy does he tinge his phrase with a shade of bitterness. ''My prophecy, from the British peak of Europe, is that we also shall have a government of the people by gentlemen for the business...
...midmorning they stood outside the Curtis house intently watching a second-story window shade. The doctor had promised to raise it as a signal of the end. Everything was very still. A Negro boy was exercising polo ponies nearby. The air was sweet with spring. . . . Up, slowly up went the shade...
...believes he owns because he won it in a crap game with a former ruler, and which Wheeler claims because he bought an Eldoranian revolution for $100,000. Unfortunately such gags as the long dialog in which the word "well," used as an interjection, is dragged through every possible shade of meaning, and the scene where Wheeler and Woolsey come through an airplane bombing with most of their clothes torn off, were not good even when they were...
Paris-in-China. When people finally take their dream-trip to Paris they notice that it is on a river, that nearly every street is flanked by rows of shade trees, that the sidewalks teem with cafes, that French officials wear evening dress at day-time functions, and that many a signboard bids one to start the next meal with a Dubonnet...