Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lampoon, it was announced from the Police Superintendent's office in Boston yesterday, was suppressed for two violations of the law: first, the improper display of the United States flag on the front cover and, second, for the display of an obscene picture on the inside...
...other's piquancy with a substantial loveliness of his own, and to pile up the Harvard score by taking second place, or four points. And of the four leading squaws, not the least is A. M. Carrillo '26, who is doing yeo-man (F) duty in lobby and rotogravure display. Mr. Lyon, the dowager, makes up in elevation what he may lack in the delivery of lines. The heavy comedy falls to the lot of R. F. Burke '25, as a rum-raiding constable, and of E. S. Daniell Jr. '26, as a captain of industry. Mr. Burke is constantly...
...more unregenerate critics when this ancient bit of brittle Congreve chatter was released on the stage of the Greenwich Village Theatre. It proved to be one of the most unrestrained of the so-called immoral contributions to the season. Heywood Broun, in particular, was pleased by the display. He argued that a dirty play was perfectly admissible provided it was funny enough. Almost everyone agreed that it was funny enough...
...witty of the inquirers. His plays are frankly fragile conversations, bent chiefly upon satire of love, as it was then conveniently called. The Provincetown Playhouse group, which have several times more than justified their first season fanfare of intelligent plays produced for the intelligent, gave the piece a satisfactory display. Most of their usual players (Helen Freeman, Edgar Stehli, Walter Abel, E. J. Ballantine, Perry Ivins) were in the cast and accounted for themselves with even competence. Adrienne Morrison, a visitor, added a brilliant touch. It was the consensus of opinion that the piece was just well enough played...
...spirit of such gatherings is notably infectious. Hence, if the Register's temporary eschewal of lurid headlines loses the sheet no circulation, editors elsewhere are likely to grunt: ''Oh yes, in Des Moines," and continue to await the arrival of another Leopold-Loeb attraction for their display columns. Indeed, even the Des Moines Register tied a string to its promise. It reserved the right to print on its front page during the test week "any story of outstanding criminal importance...