Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball Mr. Coolidge had already vetoed. Last week a curtailed parade was agreed upon. It is probable that if the President had consulted his own wishes alone, there would have been no parade. But Washington merchants, who find great profit in the inauguration ceremonies, pressed very earnestly for more display. A compromise resulted...
Without any military display, President Obregon and President-elect Calles left the National Palace in an open barouche, drawn by fine horses with gold-mounted harness, and proceeded along the streets amid the loud plaudits of the assembled public to the Stadium...
...awarded to the extraordinary new structure of the American Radiator Co. on West 40th Street. It is a great black tower, looking not unlike a pile of coal, culminating in glowing gold and yellow, like the flames of an unbanked fire. One of its most notable features is its display basement, where stokers in uniform show heating appliances in actual operation in an elaborately decorative furnace room with a vaulted ceiling...
...regular intervals, commendable--we suppose--samples of advertising matter. Here are flaunted before the eyes of all passers-by, whether they would see them or no, placards for this brand of shoe polish or that type of manure spreader. Glaring in huge type, on highly-colored cardboard, these display cards are an eyesore and an insult to the majority of the students who use the library. However "commendable" they may be on the signboard, in the street car, or on the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, they are a shrieking anachronism in a college library...
Very few people of prominence have left as much information about themselves as Richard Wagner. Far from any display of reticence, he positively hurls his private life into the teeth of posterity, notably in the voluminous autobiography Mein Leben. So Mr. Newman feels at liberty to peer without shame into dubious corners of the Master's life. It might be supposed that, with an autobiography whose avowed intent was "unadorned veracity," the private life of the composer would not be a hard matter to probe. Unhappily, Mr. Newman finds that, far from being a frank revelation, Mein Leben falls just...