Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poor men, living by rote, and coddled in all the conveniences which civilization has perfected to make country life tolerable and city life pleasant, are unfamiliar with the forces of Nature, and abashed by any display of the power that throws down telephone poles like jackstraws, cracks huge sewer pipes, and keeps the electric light from turning...
...fieldmarshal's uniform was promptly ordered for King Vittorio Emanuele. Thus militantly attired, he was scheduled to give the bride away at "a ceremony to be celebrated in strict solemnity in the private chapel of the royal castle at Racconigi. . . . The celebration will end . . . with a fireworks display...
...floor space. Also the show cases in the centre of the floor have been lowered in order to provide a full view of the store, from all points. Two staircases lead to the basement, one just inside the door. A beautifully appointed English book room provides for the display of fine books...
...width as the old, but its depth is more than doubled as it extends as far back as Palmer Street. An impression of greater width is created by a large vestibule 25 feet deep, faced with bronze and flanked by large show windows. Throughout the store, the problem of display has been given increased attention. On both sides of the interior display cases extend from the front of the store to the rear...
...Manhattan. Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, Featherweight Champion of the World, offered a merciless display of fistic pyrotechnics upon the body of an ron-jawed, rock-gutted youth from New Orleans, one William Kennedy. For twelve rounds Kennedy kept coming in, jerking his head from side to side under the champion's sharpshooting, his red eyes glazed and almost sightless under the fire of the electric torches; kept coming in, while Kaplan, irritated by his resistance, clubbed remorseless blows to the body, sent jabs flickering to his bloody mouth: kept coming in. . . At the end of the fight, Kennedy was still...