Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness of style mark each story in turn. I cannot think any of the work, however, able as it is, distinguished by an authentic and native gift...
AREN'T WE ALL??Cyril Maude has returned for a brief spring display of the genial English comedy which was a hit last season...
...designs for the sets of the Dramatic Club's forthcoming production, "The Moon is a Gong," were placed on display last night at the Union. In order that the scenery should be in exact harmony with the thought and action of use play, the author, John Dos Passos '16 himself undertook the design of it. The sketches now on view are the result of his work...
...three sets on display consist of a backyard scene in a 'tenement district of Greenwich Village, a view of Union Square as Don Passos sees it, and a tableau curtain very similar to that used in the "Chauve Souris." Color and lighting run, riot in these sets and obtain a startling effect of ordered disorder. In addition to the sets, there is on display a mask designed by I. M. Simon '27, a member of the club...
...Seccondee, the Prince landed in the sweltering heat of 118° for a four-day visit in the Gold Coast Colony. But the heat was not great enough to melt the ardor of the natives, who gave him a prodigious welcome and a great display of African wealth. From Seccondee, a visit was made to the hinterland of Ashanti where "talking drums"* beat out salutes. Ashanti chiefs presented him with a gold sword, a gold stool (emblem of sovereignty), a gold umbrella and a cloth of gold. A mighty oath of allegiance to the British crown was sworn...