Word: replica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second stanza was almost a replica of the first with Fuller boring in to land several rights to the body and Clemmons countering with his left jab and an occasional right cross. The action speeded up in the third round as Clemmons methodically became the aggressor and about halfway to the bell, landed one good right to Fuller's body as Pete missed with a right...
Wrote Fertig: ". . . This advertisement was illustrated by a Gargantuan, vicious-looking creature, dressed in formal coat, silk hat, wing collar and white vest adorned by a huge gold chain . . . supposed to represent 'old line management.' It is a replica of the stock character employed by Communists to represent Capital. ... It tells the American public that everyone who manages our railroads (and, by association of ideas, all owners of capital) is cruel, lazy and indecent ... pariahs feeding off the poor laboring man. Such a concept, as it gains ground in the mass mind, allows for no exceptions. Ironically enough...
Continuing their ingenious methods of staging which produced the transept of Rheims Cathedral for "St. Joan," the VTW is planning to create in the Sanders Theatre a replica of the Elizabethan stage. For this purpose the present pit seats will be removed and the stage extended...
...first time into contact with a Nazi belonging to the Hitler Jugend. He went to school with me and once invited me up to his place. His father, who had been an officer in the German Imperial Navy, had transformed the best room of the apartment into a replica of a U-boat. Each evening a sacred ritual took place. The father would assemble the whole family to "sink Englishmen." Through a circular hole (all that was left of the window) he would push a kind of telescope; bells rang, red and green lights flashed, and everybody roared commands through...
...whole shebang cost the studios $65,000. Metro's top art men, Cedric Gibbons and Jack Smith, personally did the $10,000 "set" stage: a pylon, backed by six Greek columns, and topped with a 5-ft. gilt plaster replica of Oscar. As the evening slunk by, this gaudy setting was filled with some rare gems...