Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Margaret Mitchell's thousand-page novel of Civil War and Reconstruction days in the South is an interesting and entertaining accomplishment. The reviewer cannot call it the best novel yet written on the Civil War because he remembers. "The Red Badge of Courage" and Evelyn Scott's "The Wave," "Gone With the Wind" is not a "deep" book; its value lies in the scope of its narrative and in its extraordinary fine re-creation of an atmosphere. Despite that it is set in times of great historic significance it is a book of persons rather than of events...
...same system carries wires for radio broadcasts from the short-wave station WIXAL and for the long-wave stations of the National Broadcasting Company. They also provide the sound pickup for the cameras of the news reel companies...
...nonsense about my superior qualifications for years and years and years) I idly looked at the back page of my Psalms--which was of course the front page as this was supposed to be a book of Hebrew--and I was so surprised that the production man had to wave wildly from the control room to make me realize that I was supposed to open my mouth and speak my piece and not sit there and grin in surprise...
...With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...
...thick German accent, "I got 480 and I am having a hard time making a go of it." "Any water on this place? Have you a well?" "Everything is burned up. I haven't harvested a thing." "Well," cried the President as he left with a cheery wave, "everything is going to be all right." Roosevelt rain began to fall as the President got back to his train to find 5,000 cheering Bismarckians awaiting him. "Back East," he told them, "there have been all kinds of reports that out in the drought area there was a despondency...