Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Hitler and Horthy rolled by special trains across Germany to Berlin, where they were welcomed on a gayly decorated station platform by No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The colossal German military display which followed was even bigger than that staged last year for Premier Mussolini. In the Berlin suburb of Charlottenburg 1,100 armored cars and tanks, 318 motorcycles, 300 heavy guns, 750 cavalrymen, 61,000 infantrymen passed before Regent Horthy in just over two hours' time...
When Riggs makes his Davis Cup debut next week, international tennis will witness a display of court histrionics reminiscent of the days of Tilden. Riggs mannerisms include a Charlie Chaplin walk, laughter after a good shot, clenched fists after a bad one. Because he often moves his lips when in a tight spot, a sportswriter asked him if he prayed as he played. "Heck no," he answered. "When I find myself letting down, I give myself a pep talk. I say 'come on now, for cripe's sake, snap out of it. Quit playing like a dope...
...display were 50,000 musical instruments worth $2,000,000- stock in trade of 500 exhibitors at the 37th annual convention of the National Association of Music Merchants. In spite of a slump during the first half of the year, the merchants predicted that the total volume of business in 1938 would equal that of the banner year 1937, when $200,000,000 was spent in the U. S. for instruments, instruction and upkeep. Most popular instrument as last year: the accordion. Outstanding trend in the trade, although unit sales have been small, is in the field in which...
...answered a question made people look upon him as a thinker, until they discovered that it took him as long to answer a simple question as a difficult one. Governor of California when the Central Pacific was started, Stanford loved the limelight as much as Huntington hated it, loved display, testimonials, speeches, luxury, built so many homes and farms that his vast estate was finally in danger. He planned Stanford University as a memorial for his son, died soon after it opened, with his affairs in such bad shape that it barely got through its first years. His widow took...
...Hankow, attired in a new uniform of pale lavender, Generalissimo Chiang urbanely gave a press interview last week, his chief point being that the U. S., Great Britain, Russia, France and other nations, in their own interests, "should make a joint display of firmness and solidity" against Japan. They should learn as China has learned, declared the Generalissimo, "that compromise cannot maintain peace, that aggressors must be defeated by force!" Washington statistics released last week disclosed that during the past 14 months the U. S. has sold $13,795,000 worth of finished war materials to China...