Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Domei's Malayan correspondent: Cherry trees transplanted ten years ago from Japan to a cool retreat near Singapore never bloomed in the shadow of the Union Jack. But this year, promptly on Kigensetsu (Japanese Empire Day) all the little cherry trees burst into bloom. The natives were said to be impressed...
Lamar, whose eat-footed shadow boxing astounded conditioners all summer, likes his mammoth, 250-man 5:30 class. "The larger the class, the greater the feeling of accomplishment you get from leading them," he says. Noted for his jazzed-up cadence counting and melodramatic exhortations, he is impressed with the cooperation he gets. Upperclassmen, he feels, are improving as well as Freshman, 1300 of whom are being tested regularly by the Brouha step test to record the effects of the program...
...excitement of the Eric Ambler novel on which it is based. Orson Welles overacts; Dolores Del Rio, as a dancer who tries to take the engineer's mind off his fears, has a superfluous part, and Joseph Gotten does not match his excellent performance in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (TIME...
...beheld history unfold before their eyes. Between floating laundry barges, tall poplars, lines of motionless fishermen, they passed within a stone's throw of Daumier's house on the Ile St. Louis. Gliding under the great city's bridges, they threaded their way through the formal shadow of the Louvre, crept by the Tuileries Gardens, the Place de la Concorde, skirted the soft Bois de Boulogne, finally relinquished the monuments of men for those of nature as the steamer saluted the shores of La Grande Jatte, the island where bustled Parisian Mesdames once gathered for gaiety...
...Shadow of a Doubt (Teresa Wright, Joseph Gotten; TIME...