Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been preliminary events in the new Garden-a six-day bicycle race, some amateur bouts, a championship fight-but the hockey was the fashionable start of Promoter Tex Rickard's entertainment centre. Therefore the notables in the boxes, like the men on the ice, had been led to display an interest in professional hockey, in "Les Canadiens," in the Prince of Wales Cup, which will go to the team which wins the league championship. John Ringling, Rosamond Pinchot, Frank Crowninshield, Mayor Hylan, Charles Sabin, Mayor-Elect Walker, Paul D. Cravath, Clarence Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Hill, Paul...
Less proficient players indulged in a tournament of their own. On the desk of the Soreno Hotel the winners' trophies stood on display-two cocktail shakers...
YOUNG WOODLEY-Glenn Hunter giving a masterly display as the English schoolboy who loved his master's wife...
...Kaufmann & Baer's, the air is not fetid. In Kaufmann & Baer's, the voices are as cultured as it is possible for department store voices to be. The store has 17 display windows on two main thoroughfares, 19 elevators, a complete escalator system running up and down from the street to the seventh floor. It employs 2,000 people. Within a few minutes' walk of the main building is a large new seven-story warehouse. On the roof of the main store is a radio broadcasting station, WCAE. This is the third national broadcasting station operated...
...Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer is probably the best novel yet written about the Negro." And Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...