Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
Blacker than ever hung the shadow of Stavisky over the Chamber of Deputies. The death of Stavisky might not have been a political murder but nobody could deny the murder of Albert Prince. Premier Doumergue, enraged, offered 100,000 francs reward for the capture of the murderer and assigned famed Detective Charles Belin to take personal charge. Now head of the Surete Generale, the French secret police, M. Belin trailed, captured and brought to the guillotine Bluebeard Landru. All he could discover last week was that Judge Prince was quite dead before he was tied to the track, and that...
Death Takes a Holiday (Paramount). The hero (Fredric March) of this fantasy makes his first appearance as a garden variety of hobgoblin. A translucent shadow with bad manners and a bass voice, he calls on Duke Lambert de Catolica. announces that he is "the point of contact between life and immortality'' and suggests that he join the Duke's house party for a few days, in disguise. When he reappears, Death is wearing the monocle and white breeches of a minor Mediterranean prince. He amuses himself more than the Duke's other guests with macabre little...
...growth in the centralization of authority, the government has a much firmer hold on the country than in any of the previous revolutions. Thus the present is not likely to give birth to any very radical movement--although hovering vaguely and almost unnoticed over the scene is the shadow of Fascism and dictatorship. NEMO
...Lawrence went on to bigger and brighter themes. Now Authoress Phyllis Bentley, whose background is the textile industry of Yorkshire's West Riding, has taken up the smoky torch. The scene she dimly illuminates is industrial, but its appealingly human inhabitants move in solid outline against the drab shadow of mills...