Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter-century ago, Chicago and the Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long, low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls. Such houses looked simple to build, serene and solid, but their blocky squareness, their squatness, aroused comment more hostile than surprised. People with established fortunes and homes suspected that only the ''newly rich" would employ so queer an architect. In the East, with its colonial traditions and propinquity...
...coupled with the most discerning and intelligent placement work may still fall short of giving the undergraduate any real concept of what the affair of living and making a living involves. But the colleges are undoubtedly trying hard, and if above the whole of their effort there hovers the shadow of institutionalization of conscious 'teaching" rather than of natural learning, it is no darker than the similar shadow above all our efforts at managing the life which we have succeeded so profoundly in complicating for ourselves--in the rare month of June as in other months. N. Y. Herald Tribune...
Internationally-minded advertising men pondered the matter of how England would respond to the somewhat radical Kensitas campaign and how large would be the future shadow representing Kensitas sale's figure. They recalled that Mr. Hill had made a strenuous attempt to sell, in his unique manner, Wix & Son's Wix cigaret, that this attempt had been a failure. The blame, however, was placed on the product rather than the advertising: England is used to a tightly rolled cigaret and Wix was of the loose-rolled U. S. variety. Taking no chances, he picked for his second attempt...
Theodore Roosevelt cast so great a shadow that in his lifetime all other Roosevelts were lost in it. During his lifetime, however, Theodore Roosevelt was ever conscious of one of these obscured Roosevelts, a cousin and friend, and his financial adviser. The public learned of this other Roosevelt in 1923 when he gave to the National Association of Audubon Societies a bird sanctuary to surround the grave of the late President. He was heard of again last week when Death found him peacefully asleep in his Manhattan home. He was William Emlen Roosevelt, 73, head of Roosevelt & Sons, Manhattan bankers...
...December 1921. an old and broken man. He saw his party support Robert Marion La Follette for the Presidency in 1924. On Oct. 20. 1926. he died peacefully in a Chicago sanitarium, his hand in the hand of his faithful brother. Theodore, who followed him like a helpful shadow through all his days...