Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard tales of the days when men were men, when Cecil Rhodes was carving an empire and Jack the Ripper worked on a smaller scales. There is also scarcely a man alive who believes any of it without something in the way of proof. With that as background, here is the story of the great trained moose of Shawinigan Falls, a noted boast of balled and legend, and an animal which so far as we can judge, actually existed...
...score, which occasionally edges onto the screen and points to itself and says "listen to me." This again makes the person with the Hollywood conditioned eye-car very uncomfortable. But Van Slyck's music is as superior to the sheep-grazing and grand-entrance-of-the-U.S.-Cavalry background score as the Ivy picture's subtle photography is to the antiseptic reproduction of a Hollywood sound stage...
...summer evaporated in no time at all and the thousands of students, minus a lucky few who stayed on to study or work, came swarming back to the Land of the Loud Tie and the Hot Dog. They all had stacks of snapshots of themselves with monuments in the background, suitcases full of bottles of cheap French cognac, and perhaps a "not-to-be-introduced-into-the-United States' edition or two of Henry Miller. And once back at college, they all settled down to pceve their friends no end by comparing everything at home...
...like talent scouts coming backstage, the trustees called. Besides her Wellesley background, her Pulitzer Prize and her ability to cope with a college class, it appeared that Margaret Clapp had other qualities important in a college prexy serenity and aplomb. "Head and shoulders above any of the other candidates," reported Weeks. The rest of the trustees agreed. They popped the question. Yes, said Miss Clapp, she would take...
...point of view when he dropped the wage demands and stuck merely to pensions; but his locals won't see it the same way as the public. To them, it could be made to look like betrayal--if the United Electrical Workers' propagandists make enough noise. And in the background is Reuther, the bright boy from Detroit, who would certainly like the presidency of the whole CIO. Reuther is very available indeed; he has the Ford pension plan in his hip pocket to show some concrete gains while Murray is still wrestling with Big Steel...