Word: soldierly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spanish revolution scene. TIME will continue to "borrow" (i.e. employ) the best radio dramatic talent available. Another of Collier's actors is William ("Bill" ) Adams who does "Uncle Henry." In "The March of Time" he has played Mayor William Hale Thompson, Speaker Longworth, and the resurrected soldier of Miracle at Verdun...
...years Major Higginson knew every player in the orchestra just as he knew the names of every soldier in the two regiments which fought under him in the Civil War. Because of his great philanthropy, he was widely regarded as an enormously rich, successful businessman. It was news to most of last week's audience that he failed twice in business before he was taken into the family brokerage firm of Lee, Higginson & Co., that his generosity ran him close to bankruptcy again in his eightieth year (1914) when his brother, the late Francis Lee Higginson, anonymously took over...
...Wozzeck's mistress) had music so hideously difficult that it defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon of colored lights for a beer garden; a street in the town all angles and planes...
...London, England, a soldier descended from a railway train carrying a suitcase from which dribbled gouts of blood. A railway detective pursued, apprehended the soldier. Court-martialed, he was convicted of stealing 6 lb. of fresh meat...
...readers. While the style is often fantastic, especially in the fictitious speeches which partake of the unrealities of movie melodrama, Mr. Robinson uses for the most part a straightforward narrative which brings out the more exciting aspects of the conquest. He shows Cortez to have been not only a soldier of the first rank in his ability to handle men and in his ingenuity in military tactics, but also an able administrator who knew well how to direct the fruits of his conquest along lines of permanence by fostering settlement and agriculture. The figure of Dona Marina, the beautiful Indian...