Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like this and the Rum Fleet decided that a bootlegger's motorboat was no more to be trusted than a revenue cutter. Hence the display of guns...
...laboratory, on Mathematics because it has no Divisionals, or on English because it seems nearest home. The articles will try to give the reader an authentic idea of the field for which he is best fitted. As an Oriental might say. "The venders of the fruits of knowledge display their wares. Let each choose carefully, using both his eyes...
...these are effete days. Another contender, the pious Senator Brookhart, intends to read the Bible from cover to cover. It is an intriguing prospect to imagine the Gentleman from lowa slowly enunciating the Song of Solomon, while harassed stenographers record each word for the Congressional Record. Other Senators display more originality. Heflin, always genial and diverting, has chosen to lecture on "Egyptology". This subject, while peculiarly apropos in the Senate, is perhaps not quite as entertaining as some other things he might have chosen, such as the "Parody Outline of History", or as appropriate to the object of the filibuster...
Against such a display of arbitration mere mortals are helpless. The only resource left is an attempt at imagining oneself in the outfit decreed. "Peg-top" trousers and sport coats, Norfolk predominating, with "novelty" effects for street wear, and as capstone and keynote of the whole "a low, flat, derby hat with a small feather, preferably red or grey, tucked neatly on the left side"; and man is complete in all his glory. If the new styles find ready acceptance perhaps it would be well to garb even tender freshmen in somber caps and gowns...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...