Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compared to, say, Abie's Irish Rose as a solid box-office attraction-but all in all Mr. Shakespeare did well. The season has also seen exceptional acting. Leaving aside the visit of the Moscow Art Theatre and its demonstration of what gorgeous teamwork a repertory company can display-Jane Cowl as Juliet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, Alice Brady in Zander the Great, Katharine Cornell and Haidee Wright in Will Shakespeare, Helen Menken in Seventh Heaven-on the masculine side, John Barrymore's Hamlet, Rudolph Schildkraut's performance in the God of Vengeance, Glenn Hunter...
...then a clergyman. What do you think has been happening there ? " you would run considerable risk by replying that your neighbor was coming down in the world, or that she was having people to dinner. But if you replied that there had probably been a death you might display normal intelligence for the age of 13. Or you might...
...world--for it has been recognized by the United States Government as an art of international importance. Mr. Glover, the Third Assistant Postmaster General, is even now en route to England with an official exhibit of the various issues which this country has printed. He will enter this display, arranged in the form of a gigantic shield, in the International Stamp Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Hall, London; and it is expected that the American shield will surpass the exhibit of any other nation in beauty and value. President Harding himself has described it as "an exhibit worthy...
...Significance. The Orissers deals with the duality of man's nature -with the subsconscious conflict, continually active, between what people imagine themselves to be and what they really are. The author is a psychologist and attempts throughout to display the genuine impulses and personalities of his characters with as little rancor or partiality as possible...
...they would be neither so polite nor so gay. At any rate, in most American drama, the French male character who is old enough to have a crêpe-beard has, in general, the choice between just two roles. He is always noble, and if he does not display his noblesse oblige by pursuing the chaste young heroine around and around the room with the scarlet curtains, he devotes himself to lamenting the vanished glories of his ancestral chateau...