Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the churches are full of worshipers on 'holy days, the priests are obliged to tolerate the display by the State upon or near the altars of such mottoes as: Religion is Opium for the people
Bernardone, the father, permitted himself only once to display the irritation which his son's behavior had so often occasioned. As a rule he accepted Jack's madcapery with an indulgent "Tschik"; with the Signora he often delayed in his shop discussing how Jack wasted his days lounging and singing beside fountains, how he rebounded from one girl to another, above all how he spent money- wasting it, throwing it away in pursefuls. "More like some prince than our son," said the mother in despair; but the father had not even objected when Jack rode...
Communications, written with some display of sincerity and with some evidence of purpose cannot find any but a cordial welcome in these columns. The communication included here today, though written, perhaps with the feeling that graduate students should show a flippancy like unto, that of their juniors at the proper time, further reveals that the author misunderstood the purpose of the editorial to which he refers...
...Scopes trial in Tennessee provided the biggest and best newspaper story since the war. It kept the headlines for weeks and provoked an immense amount of discussion all over the country. Especially among scholars and scientists this episode aroused a fine display of indignation. It was looked upon as a throwback to mediaevalism, an attempt to stultify the convictions of men by due process of law. One would think, from the reaction in academic ciroles, that religious belief is the only field in which great bodies of our fellow citizens decline to be guided by science or by history...
Readers, who last week thumbed their magazines and newspapers for advertisements of railroad routes and accommodations, paused at a full page display. Its headlines read...