Word: blanke
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...said Tarkington. Roberts dashed home, in a week wrote Chapter I of Arundel. Tarkington thought it was fine. Soon, with $1,000 from Publisher Russell Doubleday (who showed "astounding trustfulness"), Roberts rushed off to the cold discomforts of an Italian "palace" where, by "sitting at a desk, facing a blank wall," he wrote 2,200 words a day. Now & again he would storm out to take furious potshots with his .22 rifle at squirpling sparrows. When Arundel was finished in 1929, Novelist Roberts decided that "the life of a railroad track-worker or a lumberjack may often be easier...
...business. Eight divinity students in Manhattan ignored the last pleas of their families, teachers and lawyers, accepted Federal prison sentences of one year and a day for refusing to register. An Oakland, Calif. house painter, Raymond L. Belisle, was nabbed for the same offense, photographed in handcuffs. To his blank registration card he had attached a notice: "The undersigned will not serve in any Army or Navy as long as Roosevelt is dictator of the U. S. A." Tomas Godina, a U. S. born Mexican who had registered in Texas and later got hurt in a brawl, died hoping that...
...bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound. In the past decade, since Broadway discovered the Horse Show, jumpers have stolen the spotlight. With blank eyes last week the plain-clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This...
...most distinctive faces in U. S. public life belongs to Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, a Boston blueblood and Harvardman who resembles a well-worn U. S. antique. This week Massachusetts demonstrated that it liked his visage better than his opponent's, blank-faced Irish Democrat Paul A. Dever...
This is a rather stiff exercise in metaphysics, hardly rendered easier of comprehension by the relatively abstract blank-verse form of dialogue. For full appreciation, it makes substantial demands upon the concentration of the audience. The measure of the Dramatic Club's success is to be seen in the degree to which they have made these demands reasonable for the average audience and have rewarded the attention of the audience. Their remarkable success in so doing reveals much ingenuity, talent and plain hard work. Ingenuity is displayed in the arrangement of the stage and effectiveness of the setting designed...