Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Gar field's master thought that an "unseen force" was at work. Other ships of U. S. registry were also having crew troubles. Reports of a "wave of insubordination" aboard U. S. merchantmen were getting worried attention in Washington...
Sweet Aloes (by Joyce Carey; Lee Ephraim, producer) is a good commercial mixture of pseudo-science and sob-stuff calculated to provide a lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...
...Paris to ask her. Life with him, she is sure, would be peaceful, quiet and no trouble. Though she hates violence, she plans and carries out a violent scene at André de Venders' door which effectually frightens him out of the running. Unfortunately, Laurence is an unseen witness; she frightens him away too. To make the best of a bad bargain Isabelle marries Marc Salla-franque, an immensely rich but rather ridiculous industrialist...
...last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
Nicholas Holtz was a fiend in tycoon form, but he was also a potent and respectable citizen. The unseen tsar of a million destinies, he had in his grasp three U. S. towns, complete with their industries, police force, politics. In devious but sufficiently direct ways he controlled everything that went on therein. Of the many simmering pies to which his finger had the prime right of poke, his armament industry was the pet. And armaments meant not simply steel but explosives, gas, chemicals...