Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfect start. Johnson on Bubbling Over was out ahead from the eleventh post position; he wouldn't be able to stay there long. Canter and Display, the horses that had been giving the starter such trouble, were running on each side of Pompey. Recollection swerved almost to the outside rail but he was behind the field and there was no interference. They broke at the turn; the thud of their racing-plates sounded incredibly loud, a prolonged piratical drum-roll, in the silence that replaced the crowd's first roar...
...labor as a teamster on a traction project of Lanesburg's genius and potentate, Railroad Jones. From his fellow teamsters he learns the technique of hillbilly manhood- gulping moonshine, shooting craps Saturday nights in a wood, toting an automatic pistol for protection on "rambling" (courting) nights and for display at prayer-meetings. He reveres the four local gods- public opinion, money, wit and a glowering celestial Patriarch who, seeing all, likes little...
...week the Cabinet yielded slightly, modified its original ruling so as to apply only at seaports. Inland, the Republican colors will fly alone. But German sailors, arriving at port under the "nine-tenths imperial" Merchant Marine flag, will be able to identify the German legation or consulate by the display of both flags...
...many expensive clothes as most women wear in a lifetime, is probably sufficient excuse for a picture. The rest of this one is mostly unworthy, with the welcome exception of some of the subtitles. The story is about an American in Paris who set up a dress shop to display a specially inviting model...
...metropolitan press had used to full and florid advantage the announcement from the American Association of University Professors that football was really not the essential item in modern educational policy the Yale News decided to revive that bugaboo of last autumn, the perennial fall guy, football for the momentary display included in this column. That there is a certain sanity in their reaction is apparent. But that this sanity is slightly adumbrated by the clouds of sentimentalism, too often hovering upon undergraduate horizon is even more apparent...