Word: background
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Almost everybody was seasick. Their moans of misery made a fitting background to the scene. Some of us sang. Speed Bonny Boat and Loch Lomond were inevitable if inappropriate choices, and they must have sounded dismal, but they warmed...
Pappy Billy. Cordell Hull, a Tennessean by birth, bone, breeding and background, comes from Middle Tennessee, but the whole State takes pride in him. Nevertheless, around Star Point, where he was born, the saying is that "Cord Hull is the knowin'est man in the world-but he warn't never a match for his pappy." Pappy Billy Hull was indeed pretty much in a class by himself...
Slow-painting, finical Grant Wood spent months boning up on costumes, background for Parson Weems' Fable, then did a full-scale preliminary drawing of it. Last November he started work on the final canvas, for six weeks worked 16 hours a day to finish it. Priced at around $10,000 (American Gothic sold for $300 in 1930), it is first of a projected Wood series on U. S. legends...
WHAT NIGHT WILL BRING-Hilea Bailey-Crime Club ($2). An arthritic private investigator and his pretty daughter crack a case involving murders and theft of campaign ideas in a big Midwest ad agency. Some readers may be irked by the highly colored agency background, but the plot is credible, the humor pleasant, the atmosphere creepy...
...STORY OF THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHERS- George Catlin - Whittlesey House ($5). A little background in these matters being widely desirable, Catlin's history is commendably addressed to laymen, gives in critical outline the best political thinking from Plato to Bertrand Russell, discovers a Grand Tradition from which fanaticism and specifically Hegelianism are excluded. Contemporaries Harold Laski and John Strachey, to say nothing of Adolf Hitler, do not come off so well under the author's analysis...