Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Joseph Conrad no writer has equalled his unforgettable stories of the ''glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Few have tried, and of these William McFee and H. M. Tomlinson, at their best, have been fortunate enough to emerge for brief moments from the vast shadow which Conrad cast over the sea in literature...
...shadow of a plot helps to sustain the interest. The great Hannes and his new protege are made the "foxes" in a hunt on skis. Distinguished by caps, the two set out on the trail. Soon a mad chase ensues, and up great slops of crusty snow, down mountains perilous with crevices, and over the expansive ranges of the Tyrol the two are tracked by fifty pairs of skis. Rich comedy is afforded by a ludicrous dwarf and giant pair, whose antics on skis are similar to those in last year's "Slalom...
Across the upper part of the moon's disk one night last week flitted a ruddy shadow, tilted about eight degrees to the east. It was an appulse of the moon, visible in most of North America and parts of Europe. Associated Press's Science Editor Howard Blakeslee compared the sight to "a bandit with a dark cap drawn down over his forehead...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...
Upshot of this grim situation in the play was that Mio, learning the identity of the murderer through his conversation with Trock, was himself murdered by Trock's trigger men before he could take the truth outside the shadows of the bridge. The picture, inspired more, it appears, by valid dramatic logic than by the Hays organization edict that Justice always triumphs on the screen, arranges a totally different conclusion. In it, after he has killed Shadow and Garth, Trock is shot dead by one of his own henchmen. Mio, apparently doomed to die in the trap they have...