Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside?" Will lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman to the Mountains," "Let Your Dollars Shine the Life of the Man Who Shines Your Shoes," "Help the Elevator Boy on His Way Up?" Will hotels display the admonition: "Let Your Barber See Europe?" For 21 years one George Wagner has shaved the face of William H. English, Manhattan banker, accompanying him on business trips in his private car, journeying to his home to shave him on Sundays. Last week Banker English gave Barber Wagner...
...upon the idea of a competition between other parts of girls' bodies. The Mirror delicately chose the lips; offered a $100 prize, and an understudy's job in a kissy revue, for "the prettiest lips in America." For convenience and popularity, it was explained that entrants might display their labial pulchritude by smearing their lips with rouge and pressing them upon slips of paper in whatever patterns seemed most seductive. When these slips began pouring in by the thousand, the Mirror treated its "soul-starved" readers to reproductions of the smears. In smelly lunchrooms, dirty washrooms, ugly workrooms...
...from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces in idealistic undertakings, has persisted. It is manifest today in the literature of Hope and Understanding that is written about the Citizens...
Unveiled is used advisedly. Five years ago this entertainment would have been called cruelly iniquitous. Intimate visions of anatomy and ribaldry of wit are often apparent. Yet the display is a study in hygiene in comparison to a variety of Broadway shows. Mr. White had so much entertainment that he could apply temptation as a background. Other producers prefer to focus on it, and play it as their highest card...
...between spells of rowing their large shapes had been seen posing about the town in sweaters adorned with little oars-a crew of giants. Two of them were six feet five inches high; their average height was six feet three; even the coxswain was a big man. This display of brawn had caused some apprehension in the minds of Princeton undergraduates and now as the two shells slipped over a panel of golden water, glazed with sunset, it was apparent that this apprehension was not unfounded. The Princeton crew rowed hard; the Washington crew rowed easily; the Princeton coxswain barked...