Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectre of the unleashed machine haunts him as it did Henry Adams, who it will be remembered, also dated the end, of an epoch at 1870. In the closing sections, he calls up a picture of (old) Charlie Marx, wordless and forbidding, just beginning to cast his lengthened shadow, seen alike by the idle aristocrat and by the workingman. The Philistines, dancing upon the roof at Gaza, were evidently not more ill-fated than the joyous throngs who idled down the years after the first Versailles, unconscious that their house was tottering to its final destruction...
...election year one must discount the omniverous shadow of the ballot box; and in a depression year, one must discount the tragic little concluding sermon on materialism. To the man who was too busy or too lazy to follow the newspapers in 1932, "The American Scene" will appear trenchant and indispensable. The well informed man will find in it perhaps three hours of pleasant reminiscence and then recommend it for the attention of the neighborhood high school teacher of current events...
...Shadow. Opens with a low, sinister chuckle by the Shadow, who is anonymous and advertises Blue Coal. Virtue always triumphs over dastardly deeds...
...Very Reverend William Ralph Inge, "gloomy" Dean of St. Paul's, is the equally Reverend William Foxley Norris, onetime Dean of York, now Dean of Westminster. Twice in the past month Dean Norris, whose hobby is art and who has a nice talent in painting, emerged from the shadow of the Empire's shrine into the spotlight of world news. When a petition was started to give the late great John Galsworthy an Abbey burial Dean Norris was "forced regretfully to decline." Unofficial reason given was lack of space. Last week came to light a speech...
...current proposal for recognition of Soviet Russia has been characterized as "inflammatory" by Representative Hamilton Fish of New York. Mr. Fish adds that the integrity of our government can never permit our entrance into any relations with a country which favors world revolution. Lurking in the shadow of his words is the hypothetical Communist uprising in America which, ever since his investigation of red propaganda, has seemed so imminent to Mr. Fish...