Word: web
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually Henry A. Fowler, technician in charge of instruments, has a supply of live spiders bottled for immediate use. A "lazy, male spider" will not produce the tiny, uniformly strong web which is required, so small female spiders must be caught...
...With the 29th and last "display," the Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus stepped up into another class altogether A rising curtain disclosed a steel cage, 32 ft. in diameter, with a web of netting guarding the top. The lights were lowered a sound like thunder rumbled and syn thetic lightning glimmered. A big, heavy maned lion loped from the runway into the cage, slithered along an upward-sloping row of pedestals until he was crouched on the highest one. Two tigers came in and took their places beside him. Ten or twelve more beasts entered. While some of these were...
People were struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
Things are often said to be just like Greek tragedies, but "Winterset" really is. One vast web of highly improbable coincidence is woven so elaborately and so ingeniously that terrified suspense bangs on the turn of each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws...
...telling a nurse with whom he is in love how much he hates war profiteers, learns that she is engaged to one. Starting with this situation, which might lead almost anywhere, I Stand Condemned develops, presumably from sheer force of cinematic habit, into semi-conventional spy melodrama. A complicated web of circumstantial evidence makes it look as if the young officer were guilty of treason. The profiteer gives the testimony that clears...