Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With at least the shadow of the Elysees falling athwart his broad, stooped shoulders M. Briand produced last week what he intends shall be his last great trump in the game of Diplomacy...
...always interesting and sometimes startling question of what Mr. George Washington Hill and his American Tobacco Co. are likely to do next was last week answered when Lucky Strike's ''future shadow." suddenly expanded from the chin in which it originated and spread over the entire figure, monstrous, ominous, and exaggerated even to advertising's nth degree. For a long time the public had been accustomed to seeing, in Lucky, advertisements, a picture of a single-chinned man or woman casting a fat and double-chinned shadow, the moral being that by much smoking instead...
...hours earlier George V had assented, as Emperor of India, to what was about to be done. His assent had been cabled by Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald to the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin. Making grotesque patterns of light and shadow, the flashlight danced about the bungalow until it picked out sleeping St. Gandhi who stirred, awakened blinking, grasped the situation at once and quietly observed...
...sharp wind blew over Travers Island, over the traps of the New York Athletic Club, over the shoulders of squad after squad of gunners competing, on two days of sunlight, gusts and shadow last week, for the amateur clay target championship of the U.S. Businessmen, farmers, clerks, lawyers, fine shots all, they came out for their turns in squads of five. All day for two days the wind bore the steady blam, blam, blam-blam of a little war as the shooters moved, a serious-minded army about 180 strong, from stand to stand at the club's eight...
...some, socialism is blackness and despair: to others, it is the shining goal of progress, perhaps when the two get together they will see more of both light and shadow. In the meantime, the spectacle of grown up children fearing the dark and imagining things to be which are not, is humorous, perhaps ironic...