Word: backdropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
American flags flew in the streets of London last week and in Sydney crowds sang The Star-Spangled Banner. In Rio de Janeiro one Candido Botelho, a baritone, became the star of the Urea Casino floor show when he sang God Bless America in English against a backdrop of U. S. and Brazilian flags, with chorus girls wearing red, white & blue uniforms...
...secrecy," 20,000 people had crowded into the Sportpalast by 4:30 p.m. For blocks outside storm troopers stood every few feet, and in the hall they sat in all the aisle seats. The occasion was all pomp. Above the stage a gigantic golden eagle sparkled against a red backdrop garnished with swastikas...
...time Dunkirk is evacuated, history supplies its pity and terror. A Tolstoy, or even a Malraux. might illuminate such action; Author Gibbs can only impair it. Such enormous human convulsions have more reality in newspapers and newsreels than they can ever hope to get as a weakly painted backdrop for the stock characters of a second-rate romance...
...high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...
...belief that maybe Willkie was only a fatter, louder Alf Landon. When was he going to settle down and tend to his muttons-to winning an election for the Republican Party? Groaning Republicans saw Franklin Roosevelt, looking as insouciant as a gambler with a sure thing, planted before a backdrop of big guns, while Vice-Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington Republican politicians fumed with frustration. As GOPropaganda in an ironic vein, Missouri's Congressman Dewey Short croaked: "Franklin Roosevelt is not running against Wendell Willkie. He's running against Adolf Hitler...