Word: throwbacks
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...Lucky Bag receives a shot in the arm this morning by its first in a series of guest articles. This one, by "Hank" Amlin, contains the news of the week as seen through the eyes of a Texas throwback in the badlands of the North.... Ensign H. Amlin...
When Gandhi started the khadi movement of hand-spinning and hand-weaving, Nehru found it "a throwback to the pre-industrial age." But the most fretful of Nehru's complaints against Gandhi have been caused by the Mahatma's support of systems Nehru believes are "obviously decaying" and which "stand as obstacles in the way of advance-the feudal states, the big zamindars (landowners) and talukdars ( land rent collectors), the present capitalist system...
...Darwell). If she was wrong, the picture could never be in focus. She is magnificent. Russell Simpson is owlish Pa Joad. He is also a million men who plough, seed and harvest U. S. farms. Only star used was Henry Fonda (Tom Joad). For him the part was a throwback to one of his best roles, the young lineman in Slim. Others like John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Zeffie Tilbury, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Frank Darien have played minor roles in pictures for years and played them well. Each was as essential to The Grapes of Wrath as its scores...
...picturesque adventures (naughty but never nasty), Lady Eleanor's most colorful acquaintance was her reckless, extravagant, vain, arrogant, sentimental, witty father. From the one chapter she gives to him, a reader must conclude that he was an even more picturesque throwback to Bathsheba than his daughter, and that she would have done better writing his biography than...
Mariners who correct their compasses for variation also have to correct them for deviation, a local error caused by magnetic metals (chiefly iron, steel) in their own craft. The Research is unique because she is nonmagnetic in every possible detail, will have infinitesimal local deviation errors. A throwback to the wooden-ship days, she has a hull of teak, bolts, girders and anchor chain of aluminum bronze. Her cooking utensils and tableware are aluminum; her four Diesels (three for auxiliary power, one for propulsion in calms) are of bronze and aluminum. Her only steel is in their crankshafts and cylinders...