Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chevrolet Motor Co., with Hudson-Essex and a few other manufacturers of motor cars, last week found opportunity to display their new models before the National Automobile Show opened in Manhattan...
...President Paul von Hindenburg, is no longer German but lies in the wedge of Polish territory which was driven through Prussia to the Baltic by the Treaty of Versailles. With his own province thus a knife in the back of his fatherland, Old Paul von Hindenburg has begun to display marked sympathy, of late, for East Prussia- that part of Germany which is divided from the rest by the Polish knife. Last week the Herr President showed the tempo of his feeling by arriving with ponderous unexpectedness at a joint meeting of the German and Prussian cabinets, called to decide...
...hung himself. Golovin, voluble Russian revolutionist, had in his power a woman for whom he craved. To her he talked all night about his vicious deeds and cynical philosophy and in the morning left her unharmed, still talking about himself. Three other "histories" appear in the book. They all display Author Wassermann's virtuosity as a storyteller...
Jungle Gods is one more travel picture (this time African and made by a Captain von Hoffman) in which savages display smirking artificialities much like those so constantly practiced by semi-civilized migrates to the cinema lots of Southern California. As they go through the motions of tribal ritual-king-crowning, lion-hunting, getting married, they manage not to fall into the anticipated postures of improper ingratiation. But they are always ready to roll their eyeballs, with evident satisfaction, at the camera man, thus detracting from the illusion that their curious behaviour is entirely unaffected...
...animals, accurate geometric figures, and pictures of hunting scenes. No other Indian pottery found in this region gives any indication that the prehistoric people were interested in depicting animal life. On many pieces of the pottery are pictures of the Indians shooting bears with bow and arrow others display fights between birds and deer...