Word: display
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candidate for President, no longer a citizen merely of one state, but a son of all the 48 states, Franklin D. Roosevelt!" At that traditional signal all hell broke loose on the convention floor. Delegates danced and pranced, whooped and hollered, marched and capered in a mighty effort to display their enthusiasm for their leader. For a full hour the parade milled round & round the hall, giving off all the noise that lungs and instruments could make, carrying placards with which each state tried to outdo the rest in promises of victory. Sixty-one minutes after the demonstration began Senator...
...windbreaker, climbing into his automobile, dropping in at country stores and farmhouses with a smiling, "I'm Alf Landon,'' sitting down for a talk about crops, weather and politics. Last week his first vacation trip in three years gave Alf Landon his first chance to display his close-range charm as Republican Presidential nominee...
...airs does Tip display...
...been Secretary of State for Air he can be trusted to put the Admiralty's planes on a par with the world's best. This week No. 18 Cadogan Gardens is for sale partly because Sir Samuel has been intending to build a house better suited to display his treasures, but chiefly because as First Lord he will reside with Lady Maud at Admiralty House, Whitehall in the sumptuous residence which the aristocratic British Navy provides for its chief...
...White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one day last week, members of the convening Society of Automotive Engineers traipsed into a darkened room, blinked in the glare of a pair of automobile headlights, then, passing behind a clear glass windshield, observed that although the light beams illuminated the room display, they no longer glared into the observer...