Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come to fruit in Russia until 1917. This scene, which ends with a song sung by an idiot (signifying plenty), underscores its point, as the curtain falls, with red fire in Russia's sky in the backdrop...
Representative Bruce Barton, famed adman-into-politician who conceives that at present his most useful function is as articulator of his party's ideas, hung a national backdrop for Nominee Dewey with a speech about the New Deal's shortcomings and how Republicans would mend them. "The next national campaign," he key noted, "will not be fought between a liberal party and a reactionary party. There is no place in America for a reactionary party. The next national campaign will be between a Republican liberal party and a Democratic radical party...
...librettist, the late Hugo von Hofmannsthal, had turned out another grisly melodrama, a Freudian version of the Greek tragedy Elektra. In this second blood-curdler, the hag-ridden heroine danced gleefully while the dying screeches of her father's murderers floated from behind the backdrop...
...150th anniversary of the establishment of American civil government in the Northwest Territory at Marietta. Ohio, offered him an occasion, reeking with history, to hang a large historical backdrop behind the little political maneuvers of this trip. He did so with one of his analogies between the old frontier of ''new land, new game, new opportunity" and the F. D. R. frontier of social and economic security. Said...
...opening last week, President George Blumenthal of the Metropolitan solemnly thanked Mr. Rockefeller, and Park Commissioner Robert Moses pointed out his princeliness in buying eleven miles of Palisades across the river to keep the "backdrop" forever virginal. The good, grey donor, however, insisted that his contribution, "being largely financial," was "relatively unimportant...