Word: foreground
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...burns with a yellow glow, and the towering height of the skyscrapers. In a "Winter Scene" he portrays the dreariness of a tenement district when everything is covered with grey sooty snow. The most forceful picture of all is a war scene showing three men in the foreground, the first of whom is lieing on the ground with a huge bloody wound, while the second is about to drive a bayonet through the back of the third as he strives to get-away. This is entitled "Brotherly Love...
...destined to die in bed are the largest and showiest Zeiss field telescopes. Squinting through his on Ethiopia's Northern front last week, goat-bearded Italian Commander Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...
...readers. Written in a methodical narrative style, with patient concentration on day-to-day, almost hour-to-hour shifts in the forces favoring or opposing the revolution, The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 is faithful to its author's desire "to place the establishment of the facts in the foreground and to offer only as much personal interpretation as seemed quite indispensable...
...chubby-cheeked Dean beheld a newspaper photograph of eight Manhattan girls practicing shaking cocktails for a benefit. Last Sunday at a special Cathedral service for the Colonial Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles and the foreground of a bar-all proudly holding up cocktail shakers-and the notice stated the debutantes 'will serve the cocktail which promises to have a truly elephantine kick.' " Driving his point home, he humphed: "I should think one of the things the present members of the Colonial Dames could...
...exhibition last week. Two were blasphemous: The Thurber Madonna and The Three Wise Men (three goggle-eyed oldsters smirking behind their hands at something that might be the Virgin). The third was The Gates of Life. Glum pedestrians hustled by in the background; sprawled on the grass in the foreground was a horrid little girl hoisting her skirts before a legless War veteran, with tears rolling down his cheeks...