Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference, besides confirming reports that the U. S. and Philippine members of the Joint Committee had differed sharply before the departure of the former, he announced that he would welcome proposals for dominion status for the Philippines but that such proposals "must come from someone else." Said Shadow Boxer Quezon: "If anybody wants a dominion status let him bring it out. If there is any reason why we should not be independent in 1946, we had better start talking about some-thing else...
Having, by a process of adroit political shadow boxing, set himself up as President of the Philippine Commonwealth with virtually the powers of a dictator, sly little Manuel Quezon naturally has great faith in his ability to duck the punches which he is constantly aiming at his own head to convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move...
...were en route back to Washington where their Philippine colleagues will join them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...
...sensationally refused to seat on the ground that his election was fraudulent. In 1912, when Roosevelt I split the club even more bitterly by his Chicago Bull Moose Convention, President William Howard Taft laid the cornerstone of the Hamilton's $1,000,000 16-story clubhouse in the shadow of the First National Bank...
...play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...