Word: shadow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escarpment is empty. It is a plateau covered with scattered scrub and occasional boulders, and here & there it is cut by dry streambeds called wadies. The sun has just come up, and each stone and bush throws a long shadow...
...Shadow of the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is more aptly titled than was meant. This fourth working of a once-rich lode comes up with very little pay dirt. Its great-grandparent, The Thin Man, made as a quickie seven years ago, grossed a million or so dollars and incidentally delighted U.S. cinemillions with the brand-new Hollywood discovery that a man and his wife could be in love with each other...
...Newspaper. More than ever the Tribune is McCormick's shadow. In his 24th-floor office in the $18,000,000 Gothic Tribune Tower the Colonel runs the Tribune strictly according to his, and nobody else's, whims, fancies, prejudices. From his red-&-white marble desk runs a direct wire to Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney. Over it all day the Colonel feeds his ideas. His story suggestions go forth initialed "R.R.McC.", meaning that they get into the Tribune for sure, and generally page...
...Fradd perfected the use of silhouettes to determine which students were in need of the exercises. The process, later modified by the "shadow graph", spread to all parts of the country. In 1938 the now famous "aluminum pins" were instituted to replace the visual method of conclusion by a mathematical method...
When the Knights of Malta sent off a solid gold jewel-encrusted falcon as a gift to their sixteenth century over-lord, Charles V of Spain, they could hardly have imagined the complications that would ensue when it cast its shadow over the lives of an English gentleman of leisure, an oriental scoundrel, an adventuress, and a San Francisco private detective. And when the spectator sees the quartet assembled in the detective's apartment for the denouemeut, he has hardly more idea of what comes next than when he hears the first shot ring out and sees the victim crumple...