Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sailors muttered discontentedly in the shadow of limp sails. Low water rations, salt meat, and a glaring sun. A pensive figure paced back and forth in the bows. The horizontal beams of the afternoon sun were probing a cloud-bank in the East. A dark, jagged line broke the horizon where the clouds parted. The figure in the bow started and stared a moment. "Land, ho!" The caked dirt cracked on the seamen's cheeks in the deep furrows of broad grins. Rotting shirts split across the shoulders as the men leaped to their feet. Not every man could have...
...poet returned forlornly to Paris, and spent the rest of his days between the theatre and the cafe. He belonged to the generation which had been born under the shadow of Napoleon, and he felt deeply the sickness of that century which seemed like a long anticlimax to the Napoleonic wars. A later generation, drawing a similar bitterness from a world in greater ruin, can find its mood already mirrored in the pages of his confessions and in his melancholy poems. The Vagabond will journey to Emerson 211 this morning and listen to a more critical estimate of Alfred...
...international finance for the past decade. His speech summarized his conclusions on the Finance Committee's recent investigation of foreign loans. He had precipitated that inquiry, had cross-examined famed money lenders of Wall Street, had developed concrete arguments for Federal supervision of international finance. Without his customary shadow-boxing gestures he began reading his address. Excerpts...
...Radio city development shows that the camera can be made as sensitive to art as the human eye, and that there is a fine poetry in the clattering bigness of industrial activity which rivals the tranquility of classicism. Several of the photographs are studies in light and shadow on the clay models of Radio City, appear like actual buildings seen from the air. Richard and Hofmeister, Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray, Hood and Faulihour are the architects who have designed the Rockefeller project. It consists of eight separate units, staggered to admit maximum air and sunlight, all of which are connected...
...decade the Old Guard reeled over the continent carving out new thrones. The long shadow of Napoleon fell across the world and brought fear into the hearts of kings. Austrians stacked their guns before him in the slanting summer sunlight at Austerlitz, Prussians furled their flag at Auerstadt, and in Poland one found a camp and not a forum. Then, in an odd lull, the Bearskins marched out of central Europe into the Beresina ice fields and the world learned that the Emperor was mortal...