Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There have been foolish threats and disturbances when it was announced that we were going to give O'Casey's "Juno and the Paycock," and Synge's "Playboy of the Western World." Just because they depict life realistically and do not hesitate to show the sordid, several self-constituted censors have proposed that we should omit the performances from our repertoire. On the grounds of morality they object to "Juno" because it pictures living conditions among the poor, and in it no Irish girl has an illegitimate child, and of course, no Irish girl would have an illegitimate child. Objections...
...these new painters, the "Surrealistes" attempt to discover a world that is objective, non-abstract, meaningful, and yet inaccessible to the camera. They depict a world of the subconscious imagination, more real than conventional reality, fantastic in so far that it is opposed to the logic of our every-day life. A pocket watch painted as an object so limp and pliable as to be used for a riding saddle, that is not abstract but it is fantastic. The "Surrealistes" of 1924 adopted Freudian psychology as a key to the subconscious world they wished to explore and depict...
Hardly had Mr. Baker's boat passed through the Narrows before speculation began to fit him into the 1932 Democratic puzzle picture. His friends liked to depict him as a rallying point for the "Stop Roosevelt" movement. He was also envisioned as a compromise nominee after a possible deadlock between Smith and Roosevelt forces on the convention floor had spent itself...
...sure that after three years' total abstinence she would come out stronger than ever she was before, and better prepared to enter afresh upon her great career of enterprise. What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
...George Holden Tinkham].*" He declared his campaign activities were for Presidential electors who, he claimed, were State officers and thus beyond Congressional jurisdiction. Overruling all objections, Senator Nye called on Mr. Manly to reveal his findings. A large chart was set up on which Investigator Manly had attempted to depict all the Cannon bank accounts and the connecting "pipelines" through which the Bishop pumped funds back & forth bewilderingly. Investigator Manly's disclosures...