Word: shape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BODYING forth the shape of things to come in the dream history of Dr. Phillip Raven must have been the most delightful of tasks to Mr. H. G. Wells. In it he had the joy of the prophet Isaiah in providing a doom for all his enemies, and in peopling a heaven with his chosen. The man of science, and the engineer, and the technician will form a holy trinity to rule this heaven on earth of A.D. 2105, and all will dwell on earth happily forever after...
...thing to be expected. The sloppiness is increased by Mr. Wells' quaint gesture of including a few patent words, similar to the synthetic vocabulary of Mr. James Joyce, to lend the writings of the future an unnecessary flavor of impossibility. Be it regarded as history or romance, "The Shape of Things to Come" is faulty and chaotic in organization; this short-coming is aggravated by the fact that its creator neglected to instruct his secretary to make that handy appendage, an index...
...cinema code has not yet been signed, Hollywood productions, wherever possible, contain compliments for the NRA. In Footlight Parade, a line of marching soldiers fades irrelevantly into a U. S. flag. The flag fades into a portrait study of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The sailors then assemble themselves in the shape of a lopsided eagle. Most of the mass-maneuvers in Footlight Parade only remotely resemble dances but they are sufficiently bizarre-in many cases, pretty-to be worth watching. They also provide suspense for Warner Brothers next cinemusicomedy because it is hard to imagine what tricks Director Busby Berkeley...
...game protection association, an uglier cause-leeches. The Rowan report implied that food scarcity this year interferes with the duck's good sense: "Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting to feed on the leeches when they are in their buglike [deflated] resting shape. When the worms are disturbed they clamp onto anything within reach-in this instance the inside of the duck's mouth or throat. By distention when filled with blood they then either choke the bird to death ... or work into the nostrils and prolong the agony. The reeds...
...speaking, the assets of all closed banks will have to be revalued and there is already going on an examination of many of the banks opened after the bank holiday on a restricted basis, as well as some which have been unrestricted but which are not in good enough shape to be admitted to the insurance deposit scheme which goes into effect on January first next...