Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damp morning last week, ten U. S. Marines with a roll of telephone wire rode on mule-back along a narrow road under the shadow "of towering, jungle-clad mountains near the Honduras border. Their job was to repair a telephone wire that somebody had cut during the night, their only thought was to finish the job and get back to barracks before lunch. Near a straggling corn patch they found the broken end of the wire drooping from a pole. Though this was the most dangerous district in Nicaragua, the Marines had had no serious trouble for months...
...people know until Christmas has passed." ' Such a man the French called "Papa" Joffre, and he responded with a fatherly love. The announcement, by his doctors, that in their opinion the death of Marshal Joffre was imminent cast a shadow deeper and more appalling than any since...
...Sternberg is impressive as always. In the small use of conversation or rather the absence of it at times, the manner of unraveling the story becomes a matter of keen interest rather than a recitation by a story teller. The photography is excellent; the use of light and shadow of the vine shaded streets on the marching Foreign Legion being particularly effective...
...Boston Society notes, divides the "debutante sons" into four groups, the "A's", "B's", "C's", and "And theZ." Although a few indiscriminate residents of cities far removed from the Hub are thrown in, without any particular explanation, the large numbers of social celebrities who live beyond the shadow of Bunker Hill Monument are omitted. Naturally, as in the expose of conditions within the debutante ranks, the comments accompanying each name are more sensational than the actual grading...
Ethel Barrymore has had trying times before. Fitted by appearance and temperament to play drawing room drama, almost every time she has attempted something more pretentious she has met with a setback, e. g.: The Shadow (1915), Rose Bernd (1922), Romeo & Juliet (1922), The Kingdom of God (1928). Even a Barrymore can fail, critics remembered, when Scarlet Sister Mary opened in Columbus, Ohio, on Sept. 22. Up to last week the closest she had gotten to Manhattan was Washington...