Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What first-nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...
...practice. Of her voice, Soprano Sack says: "Every manager, everywhere I go, wants me to give the public my high notes. Very well, I give them. But I give them as a kind of extra present. Please understand, I am a normal singer. ... I refuse to transpose anything to display my high notes. I insist on singing in the original...
...Prices presently lagged but closed in a final sprint which left the Dow-Jones industrial averages up nearly three points for the day. By week's end the averages had climbed to 138, up some 13 points from the week's low, the most optimistic display the market had made since August...
...display includes a few of the best known masterpieces of Persian manuscript illumination, as well as 40 to 50 examples of glazed and luster wares decorated for the most part with brilliantly colored ornament and drawing...
...extended. The story of the Duke experiments is in itself, even without considering its significance, an exciting one. With his colleagues, Professor Rhine set about testing the mind of the ordinary man. With a pack of specially prepared cards, they tried to ascertain whether the mind could display powers which could not be attributed to the functions of the known five senses...