Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Again (Richard Dix, Chester Conklin). Any actor with Chester Conklin at his elbow runs grave risk. Mr. Conklin is so superbly comic that the witnesses are likely to be annoyed at interruptions by the usual movie romance. Such is the case with this display. Richard Dix, inevitably capable and decorative, tries to project a threadbare mythical kingdom story in opposition to Mr. Conklin's staggering comedy. Probably for the first time in history the custard pie is the power behind the throne...
...commoners shouted and so did even the Duke of this and the Duchess of that. They called her back again and again after each curtain; gave her a riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that filled the entire stage, a floral kangaroo, emblem of her native Australia in the centre, flanked by British and Australian flags. She tried to thank them: "Covent Garden . . . the dearest place I know . . . my public . . . dear old Austin, who for 36 years has been at the stage door and helped...
...space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs as their own time to break loose and wreck a city. It is too bad that some of the news on busy days can't be set in the refrigerator and saved up for display when happenings are duller. If there were closer co-operation between the morning papers this could be accomplished...
...window, hired out for the day as a clothing dummy, and a very good dummy I make too, as Max allowed when he agreed to return my last year's flannels for two hours of standing in his window. I was, you see the first part of the display, the Before Cleaning. But never mind, never mind anything except that the parade was short, which is a vice in parades, and a virtue in women, depending on what the women are short of. And so as I stood there I thought of Battleboro, and the Battleboro feeling for Memorial...
With such an even record behind each team, the netmen will attempt to attract crowds from the Intercollegiates on Soldiers Field by a display of the best tennis which has been offered spectators at Divinity Courts this season. Yale's number one man and captain. Charles Watson III, promises to give the University leader, J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, a stiff contest in the lead-off match. The rest of the University team will line up as follows: singles, G. H. Perkins '26, L. H. Gordon '27, P. M. Lenhart '27. L. O. Pratt '26, and W. T. Smith...