Word: tableau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many more Germans preferred to give up rather than die on the western front last week. The number of captured, greatly swollen by Volksstürmer, was rapidly nearing 1,000,000 since April 1. Yet some did choose death. In Leipzig, the U.S. First Army discovered a grotesque tableau of suicide in the City Hall (see FOREIGN NEWS ). And there was a young sniper captured in Leipzig who talked himself into self-slaughter...
...real love story is between a happy family and a way of living. Technicolor has seldom been more affectionately used than in its registrations of the sober mahoganies and tender muslins and benign gaslights of the period. Now & then, too, the film gets well beyond the charm of mere tableau for short flights in the empyrean of genuine domestic poetry. These triumphs are creditable mainly to the intensity and grace of Margaret O'Brien and to the ability of Director Minelli & Co. to get the best out of her. Her song (Drunk Last Night) and her cakewalk, done...
...Tableau. If some way of bridging the gap between relief and investment can be found, and if certain prevalent U.S. attitudes can be modified by a growth of insight, then it is possible that the new age begun by Britain in the 19th Century can be continued and strengthened by the concurrence of the U.S, and others. For the British Navy and extraterritoriality in this economic order it will be necessary to substitute collective military security and, perhaps, an international circuit court of appeals. And for gold, to substitute an international reserve bank. For free trade, a tariff structure exposed...
Under the towering, mossy oaks of Bayou du Large, La. they finally got around to celebrating Christmas, last Sunday. A tinseled tree glittered in the little white chapel of St. Andrew's Episcopal Mission. Children solemnly posed in a tableau of the Nativity. The young Rev. Clarence R. Haden Jr., rector of St. Matthew's Church in nearby Houma, preached a Yuletide sermon to some 100 people...
...Tableau. In Hillsdale, Ill., harried Farmer Arthur Ferkel stood with the muzzle of a gun under his neck, his toe on the trigger, threatened to press while a sheriff and his deputy tried to argue him out of it. He held the pose for seven hours before they won the argument...