Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rare broadsides and contemporary newspaper accounts of the crowning of English rulers since James 1 in 1603, go on display this afternoon...
Feared and hated by museum keepers the world over are those psychopaths whose muddled mentalities lead them to slash at paintings on display. Last week in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts found that 23 canvases stored in the cellar had been ripped by a slasher's knife. Soon police were able to report that this time the mutilator was no neurotic pigment-sticker, but one of the museum's own guards, piqued because his job had been liquidated. Ex-Watchman Joseph Cassidy admitted he had knifed a portrait of Joseph Bonaparte, Napoleon's brother...
Nevertheless at noon on May 1, Commissioner Moss dillingered New York burlesque by announcing he was renewing the licenses of none of New York's 14 burlesque houses because "the type of performance, the language used, the display of nudity are coarse, vulgar and lewd and endanger public morality . . . and are a disgrace to the people of the City of New York...
When kind Son Edwin died in 1904, his son Walter headed the Sun's publishing company at 32. In 1908 and 1909 the directors, who solemnly decided even the mechanical minutiae of the paper, agreed to admit display type and half-tone cuts to the advertising columns. In 1910, the Evening Sun was born...
...plans for the display have been made by the students. The cataloguing of the exhibition, as well as arranging for the loans, insurance on the objects, and organizing the display was entirely in their hands...