Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep gratitude on this occasion is sobered by the recollection that our good fortune has come to us under the shadow of an appalling calamity. The great monument to be erected here will commemorate a son of Harvard, who while still in his earliest manhood met a here's end in one of the most touching tragedies of modern times. Life had seemed to hold out to him the fairest promise. Secure in the affection of family and friends for he had won the respect, admiration and attachment of those who knew him, free from the harsh necessity of toiling...
...camps where there was no champagne or speckled trout, only spring water and stew dipped steaming from a bucket. Unsympathetic with these soldiers who had stopped fighting, pugnacious Novelist Ernest Hemingway filed a hard-boiled dispatch from Leftist Spain's sunny seacoast: "In the far north, under the shadow of the Pyrenees, General Franco's troops have advanced steadily north and eastward in a country where positions could be held by determined graduates of any good girls' finishing school...
Women dramatists have destroyed the neurotic as a dramatic subject in the contemporary theatre, Paul Vincent Carroll, author of the current Broad-way hit, "Shadow and Substance," told an audience of more than 50 members of the dramatic club at the Big Tree Swimming Pool yesterday afternoon...
...women, plump, middle-aged, the kind who dress the same for every occasion, every season, every time they go out of the house. A lad whose gaudy suit calls up instant associations with bargain basements. A sour wisp of a woman, ugly and thirty, about whose person the shadow of an old maid already hangs, trying desperately to make last year's finery do. In all of them, exaggerated copies of the true styles, or else utter disregard for any sort of style. Except one amazingly patrician and good looking girl who looks out of place. But there...
...into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done other valuable research work. Nowhere along the official line was there opposition to him, which is proof enough that Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism...