Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pomp less anxious, then takes himself and his sternly aching heart off to parts unknown. Net result of Kit's fierce attitudinizings is to remind the reader less of a Hemingway hero than of Carl Sandburg's fairy-tale character who. when asked: "Why do you always shadow us?" replied. "I ;.m a peanut, a proud, peculiar peanut...
...perpetual frown. He (Stanley Ridges) is the personification of the lower self that belongs to the hero, John Loving (Earle Larimore), visible to the audience whenever Loving is on the stage but never to the other people in the play. In the first act, Loving and his gloomy shadow are to be seen seated, like the riders of a tandem bicycle, at the desk where Loving is thinking about writing an autobiographical novel. They have different notions as to how the book should end. When Loving & Co. go home for dinner, the reason for their dual presence is partially explained...
Once a year in the full of the moon, according to Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, the amiable wolves of India gather in packs to pass judgment on the year's crop of cubs. Forth from their lairs and into the shadow of the great Council Rock the she-wolves nuzzle their young. If the cub is judged fit to run with the pack, all is well. If not, the she-wolf and her cubs henceforth hunt alone. And according to Rudyard Kipling that is poor hunting indeed. Last week in Manhattan, like the mother-wolves of India...
...daily orders released to the Press of Italy last summer from the Dictator's press bureau whose head is now his handsome son-in-law. Count Galeazzo Ciano. To a Fascist the orders would seem merely right & proper. To U. S. newspaperdom, resentful of even the slightest shadow of encroachment upon its freedom by the NRA, they seemed the acme of outrageous despotism...
...American team, as Grantland Rice's Manhattan office (telephone: Mohawk 4-7500) will confirm. To the Princeton freshman team and its small, twinkling Coach Johnny Gorman (the quarterback who, in the 1922 Princeton-Chicago game, called for and caught a historic forward pass in the shadow of his own goal) 23 subscriptions to TIME. To Reader Hill, the bill...