Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan will present moderate terms of settlement at the end of the conflict," he said, enlarging on his "no unreasonable ambitions" theme. He implied that his country was driven to war. Most of the land which Japan is acquiring he classed as "all expense, no remuneration...
Opening chorus of Pins end Needles declares its theme. A number of enthusiastic seamstresses change from work clothes to evening clothes, beamishly chant...
Superbly photographed, "The Prisoner of Zenda" does not devote itself to love and intrigue alone; many scenes are salted with a humor that is as dashing as the theme. Anyone with red blood in his veins can find a splendid opportunity for escape from the humdrum ways of a modern world by visiting the University...
...Theme of the New York Fair is "Building the World of Tomorrow." This it is now busily doing in Flushing Meadows, a filled-in swamp nine miles from Manhattan, once beloved by rats but now graced by two artificial lakes, handsome landscaping. Only building finished is the Administration Building where most of the Fair Corporation's 900-odd employes work and where dressy President Whalen holds forth in a copper-lined board room. Like the Chicago A Century of Progress, the Administration Building is showily modern, as apparently will be most of some 350 other projected buildings which eventually...
...Manhattan, his evil genius appears-a suave, wealthy, possessive conductor and music patron named Hawes. Although Howard struggles in increasing panic, Juana guesses what is wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme that was almost too delicate for Proust, Author Cain brings his story to a violent conclusion, with Hawes and Juana both dead, the singer silent again. But Howard no longer thinks of his own tragedy, broods instead on the ruin he caused a girl who knew more about him than...