Word: display
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within four weeks, the new President seemed the most favored contender for the Republican nomination?that is, if he would display some individual initiative, something that would make him a figure in his own right, not a mere shade of Mr. Harding. Other candidates likewise were getting their plans under way. Senator Underwood was at work; Senator Hiram Johnson and Mr. McAdoo were
...official circle and all his servants; these exercises consist of Bible reading and prayers. On Sundays, he conducts formal services and delivers a sermon on a text from the Bible. His correspondence further reveals the fact that his domestic relations are happy; his references to his wife, Hermine, display the deepest affection...
...therefore, with much chagrin that those who hoped for the new era have watched the ebb of conservatism recently manifested both in England and the United States. Its political display is regarded as a mere sign Behind the political movement is seen an almost universal revulsion away from liberal tendencies. Intellectual freedom is endangered. It is feared that thought and the arts will succumb to the dulling influence of bourgeois ideals. Once more Babbitt goes about his daily lasks in great glee. He rubs his hands and beams genially Popular approval has placed its divine sanction upon the trinity...
...therefore, very difficult to say who will start on Saturday. Very probably some of the players who have not had an opportunity to display their talent in the early season games will be given that chance against...
Nebraska welcomed Colgate with such a display of feints, line-bucks, cross-bucks and hidden ball plays that after the first quarter the game was not a game. Concentrating on Tryon, Colgate star whom they had been told to fear, the Cornhuskers battered him into helplessness, let their visitors off gently...