Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then, while detectives watched the shadow of their criminal flit about their pin-pricked map without ever leaving a satisfactory clue, a huge piece of luck came from Washington. On April 5, 1933, Franklin Roosevelt recalled all gold bullion, coin and certificates. Since $40,000 of the $50,000 ransom money was in gold notes, police chances of catching the extortionist were increased a hundredfold. Not only the Lindbergh money but all gold bills automatically became "hot." The problem had been simplified, but by no means solved. In August $2,980 of the Lindbergh notes were converted into legitimate currency...
...Great Waltz (by Moss Hart; Max Gordon, producer) is a musical biography of Johann Strauss -("The Blue Danube'') and his able father. The plot is laid in the Habsburgs' Vienna of 1844, the year the young Strauss, stepping out of the shadow of his father's contemporary fame, made his name overnight leading the orchestra 'in his own waltzes at Dommaver's Casino in the fashionable suburb of Heitzing. Until the father's death five years later, the two Johann Strausses were bitter rivals for the title of Waltz King...
...which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley...
...builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment of conscience, the erstwhile painter watches fate overtake the other inhabitants, eventually wins his release from the accursed country. Total effect of Amaranth is typically Robinsonian: a shadow masque seen through a glass darkly, by a keen but puzzled...
...Last of the Mohicans (it will never be a juvenile), but that would not necessarily mean it was a less worthy book. Even Cooper-addicts will admit that Author Stone has done a first-rate job. Her admirers will compare The Cold Journey favorably with Willa Gather's Shadow on the Rock...