Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Birmingham show, last week, the King-Emperor inspected carefully a display of "electric fires." It was then that he complained of smoke, in Buckingham Palace. Turning to the Queen, whom he calls "May" (short for Mary), he said: "I really wish that I had one of these electric thingumbobs in my room...
Among the manuscripts on exhibition in the Widener Treasure Room in connection with educational development is a display portraying the life and works of Professor Francis J. Child, or "Stubby", as he was known to the undergraduates at Harvard. He corrected English A themes for 25 years, even though he had attained national fame as a writer of ballads. There are ten characteristic poses of the man, both as student and as teacher...
...Also on display is his famous Italian operetta. "II Pesceballo", which was written in 1862 and which has a very interesting history. It is based upon the familiar college song of former times, "The Lay of One Fishball." His purpose in writing it was to have it sung as a public entertainment, the proceeds to be used for helping the loyalists of eastern Tennessee who had been impoverished by the ravages of the Civil War. Professor Child submitted his Italian verses to James Russell Lowell '38 for revision. Lowell at once "dashed off" an English version, and the thing...
...canine population which last week posed and strutted in Madison Square Garden was in any sense the most important. Other dogs did not pause last week, in the performance of their deeds and duties, to admire the antics of these prototypes. Instead, as if stimulated by such a public display of good breeding, they spent a week of exceptional and most engrossing activity. Aside from their regular business-that of burying bones, digging up bones, barking at automobiles, scaring children, sniffing at feet or tree trunks, running in circles, sitting on their hind legs, biting hobos, etc. etc., certain individual...
Last in importance but first and omnipresent in display came the companions in arms of Marshal Haig: the Lancers, the Queen's Own Hussars, the Royal Horse Guards upon their matched chestnut horses, the King's Own Scottish Borderers (better known as "The Ladies from Hell"), finally the Foot Guards in towering fur busbies, the Welsh, Coldstream and Grenadier Guards...