Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Curator Blake-More Godwin of the Toledo Museum of Art, pressed a button. Curtains fell in the 19 great display windows in the famed Toledo department store of Lasalle & Koch (pronounced "cook") revealing 19 vast paintings of Toledo industry...
Though this display is directed by private enterprise, it is indicative of Toledo alertness in general. This fall, millions of magazine readers throughout the U. S. are pausing before huge full-page displays of Toledo's industrial triumphs. For these advertisements (headlined "LEADERSHIP") the Chamber of Commerce pays. They reveal the personal virtues of leading citizens of industry ?of Gordan Mather, president of the Mather Spring Co.; of J. D. Rittenhouse, for 27 years foreman of the enameling department and responsible for the fine finish of Toledo Scales; of many another. They tell Toledo's advantages: third largest railroad...
Lawyers. Henri Torres, chief counsel for the defense, florid, bloated, dynamic, put his histrionic abilities to the test when, leaping past his colleagues into the middle of the courtroom, he brandished a revolver, produced from under his voluminous black gown. Shrieks of terror mingled with gasps met this display. Flappers sat with blanched faces; bewhiskered Hebrews rocked back and forth with supressed excitement; Ukrainians, more pallid than ever, glanced nervously through their narrow eyes. Maitre Torres, aiming at a chair, pulled the trigger?there was a dull click, followed by sighs of relief. He was attempting to prove that...
...addition to this celebration, a valuable collection of books given by various Professors in the University in memory of Professor Norton, besides the most valuable volumes of the large library which he himself bequeathed to the University, will be on display during the centennial week in the Treasure Room of Widener Library...
...Fogg Museum was praised by Dr. Zimmermann for its arrangement, and especially for its facilities for study. He commended the small display rooms, as opposed to great galleries...