Word: backdrop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With two Governors dangling on strings against a backdrop of the State's new $2,000,000 skyscraping Capitol at Bismarck, North Dakota last week treated the nation to an extraordinary political puppet show. Lieut.-Governor Ole Olson, in shirtsleeves held up by blue garters, sat in the Governor's chair, issued proclamations, ruled the State. But to thousands and thousands of sunburned, wind-bitten North Dakota farmers, William Langer was still their rightful Governor...
...interior rooms are depicted by side wings and backdrop on which the furniture is painted. Music is sung at intervals by a gay-clad quartet, accompanied by a spinnet
...last week embellished with five huge maps hung upon its walls below the galleries by direction of Senator Copeland, who used them to deliver a graphic oration on why the St. Lawrence waterway treaty should not be ratified. But most of last week the maps served as a backdrop while the Senate went through the motions of considering the President's bill to seize the Federal Reserve Banks' gold and create a $2,000,000,000 fund for Treasury exchange operations as preliminaries to devaluation of the domestic dollar...
...policeman with the loudest voice at the Show. Two girls on a turntable spent their hours and days climbing in & out of a Chrysler. Packard boasted the "Queen of a Century of Progress," who would on request weigh your signature. A couple in evening dress against a backdrop of swank estates set the stage for Pierce-Arrow...
...antics of their comedian-Joseph Lytell ("Joe") Cook. Mr. Cook is Broadway Joe, beloved hansom cab driver and a horse's best friend, a devotion which ultimately elects him Mayor of New York. His first appearance is made in front of Rector's. The painted backdrop does not look much like the facade of Rector's; neither does Broadway Joe's cab look like any other ever seen. A washbasin with running water pops out of the top, a shoe-shining device promptly begins whirring over the driver's toes. The seat flops back...