Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan not only the fighting services, but also the Emperor, the peasants and the proletariat are out to soak the bourgeois rich. Before the soaking begins this week, the Diet was edified by a discourse from ingenious Mr. Koki Hirota. A stone-cutter's son, he once tried to get a job in the household of Captain John Joseph Pershing, then U. .S. military attache in Tokyo, who turned him down because "his English is so poor." Today Koki Hirota is Foreign Minister. "Please tell General Pershing," said he not long ago to Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, "that Hirota...
...lawyer-husband, Thomas Hart Fisher. Composer Aaron Copland wrote smart, satiric music but attention was more on the stage, set as a grim grey courtroom. A cabaret dancer (Ruth Page), a jealous chorus girl and a maniac are all accused of killing Page's dancing partner (Bentley Stone). While masked jurors look on stupidly, the crime is three times re-enacted as different witnesses saw it. Revolver shots ring out from the orchestra. The jury believes any story. The pompous judge makes no decision, pounds his hammer for the next case on the docket...
...reveal that there were several earlier phases of this same culture, which had reached its highest point at the time of the Conquest. The culture was a simple one, not so advanced as that of the Incas or the Mayas. There was no metal known and the development of stone implements and pottery was advanced. The people lived in lake dwellings, and practiced agriculture. It is from these lake dwellings and similar ones along the coast that Venezuela took its name. Columbus, seeing the houses in the water, called the land "Little Venice...
...fact, the building bears very little resemblance to the Chapel of 1745. In the first place, the doorway to the building, as seen in the Paul Revere engraving of Harvard, was on the West end and extended almost up to the entablature, and was reached by a fight of stone stops, as seen by various existing bills of 1744. The arched windows, shown in many drawings and paintings of the Chapel, were much shorter, with a recessed brick panel beneath them, and had smaller panes of glass, five panes wide, and larger muntins in the sash--as was typical...
...Mike Gold's 606 playground (the East Side); Fifth Avenue jammed with taxis, limousines and fur-clad ladies with good dogs; dismal parks replete with dejected souls, magnificent churches disgorging uplifted souls; bustling symbolic Wall Street, beggars, radicals, bankers, gangsters; longshoremen--a consolidated mass of humanity, steel and stone. The book is arranged on the thin theme of a 24 hour period and attempts to follow representative types through their daily trials, labors and joys. The book is New York and thus will present a different face to every reader cold and mechanical to him who is a stranger...