Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...magnificent opportunity for Herr Zörgiebel to display to French and English observers the legitimate uses of his excessively military police department, actually a little army. Systematically his men attacked the Communist barricades with clubs and fire hoses, then with pistols, then with rifles, finally with machine guns, armored cars. Airplanes flew overhead, spotting snipers...
...anxiously over the heritage of three centuries in sullen defiance of the modern strata on the avenue. Courtiers pass but the grandeur of tradition still holds its grip upon their modern descendants. Modern methods of artificial duplication serve sufficiently to erect a set upon which these youthful actors may display their talents, such as they are, and gratify the eager ambition of parents to whose benefit the family shirt may now be waved advantageously. Capitalists give till it hurts in this new phase of war on the social front, while the first line bows in and backs...
...Fogg Museum, there is now on display a collection so sketches made by H. B. Hoover, M. Arch. 1926. Hoover was awarded both a Sheldon Travelling Fellowship and the Nelson Robinson Jr. Travelling Fellowship and made these sketches during his journeys aboard...
...these last two years has set all the more into relief the garb of contemporary Seniors. The gowns of the past are still, evidently, purchased; some moved, sparse sombre dots, in the early hours of the first week of May; they massed together before Widener in one grand display for the benefit of Notman's and the Album: then--oblivion. The almost-alumnus is no more to be distinguished from the rest of Harvard than is the sweaterless and letterless athlete...
...Memorial would not be available for holding the divisional examinations next week. Good old New England reserve and modesty which objects to boasting about the most hospitable acts is not to be blamed for reticence in a case like this. Generosity loses half its fine flavor if a vulgar display is made of it as soon as opportunity is given...