Word: slant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slant on Moscow from Manhattan last week was to charge that the Red Army, which is supposed to have been thoroughly indoctrinated with Communism during all these years, has in fact now become disgusted with the way Communism is working in Russia, and has in recent months obtained under J. Stalin mastery of the frame-up and third-degree apparatus of Justice in Russia. According to Mr. Levine, the New Generation represented by the Red Army now "regards the Old Guard Leninists as the greatest obstacles in its path...
...took him to reach the Mississippi somewhere near St. Louis, three events broke the monotony of his 375-m.p.h. speed-two glimpses of land through the clouds, a brief flurry when his mask went askew. Not until he saw the long furrows of the Alleghenies did Flyer Hughes slant down in a long power dive to Newark. There, no one was aware of his coming until the crescendoing whine of his racing engine jerked heads aloft. Like an angry dragonfly, the little ship buzzed across the field, spiraled up in a chandelle. In the control tower an official timer clicked...
...Cecil B. De Mille recaptured so successfully the sweep of panoramic action which was his hallmark in the silent days. Often his cameras, handled by four of Hollywood's topflight cinematographers, clinch the pictorial language of the plains in brief, consummate idioms: a stagecoach ribboning down the long slant of a prairie shoulder; the Cheyennes charging up a shallow river riding so evenly their ranks look like a drift of mist; braves in war paint raiding a cabin where two women are alone; a herd of buffalo, with a scout's horse among them grazing in the burnt...
...Beaux-Arts built a five-story structure in Manhattan to house its own drawing classes. But architects and colleges were beginning to complain that its slant was too traditional, theoretical, unpractical. Year after year the problem sent contestants for the Beaux-Arts Scholarship to Paris was an opera house, although no notable opera house had meanwhile gone up in the land except the one Utilitarian Samuel Insull built in Chicago in 1929. As Beaux-Arts prestige threatened to crack, University of California resigned its membership and University of Virginia followed...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...