Word: themes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Northern Sakhalin is sold to Japan, Sinclair's much-discussed oil concession there will of course be worthless. The whole episode would furnish a worthy theme for a novel by Oppenheim. Sinclair's attempted penetration of the Russian oil fields follows the development project undertaken in the Baker petroleum district by the Barnsdall Corporation, another American company...
...other pieces of music were composed. There is, for instance, the Fuga del Gatto of Scarlatti. One day the composer heard a strange series of piano notes. His cat had scampered across the keyboard. The notes were firm in his memory, and he used them as the melody, the theme for a highly learned and intricate composition, a fugue...
...respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities of children- Stephen, his youthful grandson, by retiring into his own entirely unchildish mind. The struggles of these and others against Destiny and the respectable furnish the theme of the book...
...Woman with Four Faces. Here is a high temperature drama with all the available horrors worked in to intensify the plot. Although the picture is hardly a propaganda film, " dope" is the central theme. The present discussion involves a sucession of not unusual situations which are popularly supposed to be " gripping." Betty Compson seems to come into her own for the first time in a feature part that fits her so well that whatever may be good or bad in the remainder of the production can be easily disregarded...
...least questionable, however; whether any athletic event in which the center of attraction is non-collegiate can be appropriate during Commencement week. The week is devoted to college life and college things; any event--no matter what may be its intrinsic worth--that does not ring true to this theme is inappropriate...