Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Loyal people everywhere are requested to display the flag of the U. S." on Monday, Jan. 16. They are asked to ring their churchbells steadily for eight minutes at high noon...
...aroused were the buyers by the fourth day's display that they furnished almost $500,000 for the remaining pieces in the Salomon Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier...
...held in affection among his colleagues and by graduate students, Professor Coolidge was not "popular" among undergraduates. Respected he was, yes, but not "popular". Too much of a scholar to play the demagogue; too serious in his purpose to provide sideshows; too busy in his cause to display the classroom antics whereof "traditions" are made, too sincere to curry favor, his loss is the greater...
...best display of squash played this year on the University courts, Captain J. L. Pool '28 of the University team, combining speed with accuracy, defeated M. P. Baker '25 of the Boston Athletic Association, three straight sets Saturday in the concluding series of the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association tournament. The University, however, lost its series of matches by a score of 3-2, and thereby dropped to third place in the Association tournament. The other three University teams were victorious in their matches...
Silk Legs is a technical term for those grotesque and abbreviated limbs on which stocking drummers display their flimsy wares. The drummer in this case is Madge Bellamy, and as such she is successful enough to surpass the sales records of her rival who is also her lover. Actress Bellamy, moreover, is herself a not unsatisfactory stuffing for cloaks, suits, stockings...