Word: cardboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trucking John Harvard in the Crimson Band's between-the-half show lured the Yale bulldog safely into the big drum with cardboard bone marked victory...
...atmosphere from Gruger's oldfashioned, deep-browed men and frail but credible ladies. Though limited in range, Gruger's draftsmanship and handling of dark and light masses could be compared with the French Masters Daumier and Forain. He never used a model. The kind of cheap cardboard on which he drew with carbon pencil and lamp black is now known as Gruger board...
...planets occurred which may have been the guiding star of the Three Wise Men, was no Stokley invention. It was originated as a Christmas program by Director Philip Fox of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, but Stokley improved on it, added music, a crèche, soft lights, a cardboard tableau of the wise...
...years U. S. airlines have known a lot about passenger discomfort at not unusual flying altitudes between 10,000 and 15,000 feet. But they have done little to allay it beyond providing 105-lb. registered nurses, and handy cardboard containers...
...neither orthodox realism nor orthodox social drama, but a series of startling angle shots, a kind of vivid grotesque. Its Jewish humor and pathos spring each from the other's loins. Its people are both more and less than three-dimensional: in their behavior they are often cardboard vaudevillians, but in their speech they are illiterate poets, and in their instincts they can be keen as animals...