Word: surrounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dear Octopus (by Dodie Smith; produced by John C. Wilson). In real life the English surround their country houses with high hedges, for privacy. But in the theatre, English country houses are always ostentatiously on display. Dear Octopus provides the latest sentimental exhibit, peopling the manorial hall with one of those varied but unvarying families who know what Britannia-and the more genteel theatre public-expect of them. Every item in the ritual is carefully observed...
...people whose story they enclose-the Prince Consort (Anton Walbrook) and Wellington, dozing in his chair. Peel, Palmerston, Gladstone, Asquith, Salisbury and a dozen others-seem as real as the sombre, graceful rooms, the velvet lawns and old streets that surround them. Most real of all is the Queen herself (Anna Neagle), waltzing at a palace ball, reviewing troops on a white horse, rebuking Gladstone for not preventing the massacre of Gordon's army at Khartoum, telling an old servant how she waved to a crowd of costermongers at her Jubilee...
...lonosphere Observatory of the University, after a four-year shutdown, has resumed its radio investigations of the little-understood deep blankets of atomic particles which surround the earth's atmosphere a hundred or so miles from the ground, and which enable long-distance wireless communication...
...search of an education. For too many years the accompanying murals have offended his aesthetic sensibilities. The war memorial in the Chapel is a fitting and adequate tribute to the idealism engendered by the greatest of all social disasters. There is no need for a mature university to surround the tragic blunder with the maudlin sentimentalism of the verses and murals in Widener Library. Where was the "righteous cause," the "victory...
...proton (Britain) that has 'wave characteristics' of a definite type peculiar to itself. In the south there is what might be called a neutrino (Italy). This has, some think, also wave mechanic aspirations. It is peculiar in this respect that its core is eternal (Rome) but its surround, some think, is ephemeral...