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...zanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...
...with a host of junior titles to his credit, defeated tennis captain Form Wilson in two straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. Wilson jumped to an early lead in the first set, but the foreign game of his opponent was too much for him, keeping him definitely in the background for the rest of the match...
What has been called one of the greatest cross country teams in Dartmouth's history yesterday afternoon ran true to form and left the Crimson and New Hampshire, runners in the background on the Middlesex Fells four and a half mile course to win the Triangle meet by eight points...
...life more attractive and to identify Catholicism with various movements designed to raise the standard of rural living. The Conference particularly opposed the present trend towards big mechanized farms and proposed taxing them out of existence by graduating land taxes to penalize size. It wanted people with a farm background put on family-size farms. It also wanted factory workers encouraged to live on small rural homesteads where they could grow enough food to supplement their income and give their children the benefit of a country upbringing...
This gossamer geewhillikin is played to the last teardrop against a pastoral background of acres of olde English sets. Occasionally Songbird MacDonald comes down to earth long enough to warble Smilin' Through, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes and other songs of long ago. She is in good voice. The same cannot be said of her husband, blond Gene Raymond, who acts as if he cannot make up his mind what century he is performing...