Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fear of the United States reigns in Latin America. . . . We behold the shadow of a dreadnought behind each Yankee dollar [invested in Latin America]. . . . American military occupation in Haiti must...
...shot, lost his footing and sprawled heavily on the side line. Once, when he needed the fifth set to win, a Wimbledon crowd would hardly have needed to wait while Tilden won it. They waited last week, while Borotra drew even at Sall and then while Tilden, his long shadow falling across the court like a hammer as he served, ran out two games...
...Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet"-a slogan deplored by conservative advertising men, resented by the candy & sugar industries, rebuked by the Federal Trade Commission. The current American Tobacco Co. campaign, still associating cigarets with slender figures, is built around the catch line of "avoiding that future shadow," pictures trim and athletic youth casting a fat and flaccid middle-aged shadow. Monstrous indeed are the shadows in the Lucky Strike series, almost out of all human proportion. Yet while Camel cigarets have advertised smoking pleasure, while Chesterfield cigarets have maintained that taste is the cigaret's vital...
...Shadow of the Law (Paramount). This crook story might have been made into almost any kind of cinema?absolute nonsense, or a fair program piece, or, as has happened, into highly successful and entertaining melodrama. Between the time when Powell kills a man accidentally, and goes to. jail for life for a murder he has not committed?a murder which can be explained only by the woman who was in the room when it happened and who refuses to give her testimony?through Powell's prison life, his escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow...
...crowd that had been yelling Iliad home stared as a new horse moved out of the pack-Blenheim, the Aga Khan's second-stringer. Surely, easily, Blenheim, ridden by Harry Wragg, who won the Derby in 1928 with Felstead, crept up, then moved in front, by a shadow, by a nose, then by a good length, crossed the line, with Iliad second, Diolite a staggering, gasping third...