Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge decided to follow the example set by President Wilson and personally use the famous "Lincoln" , bedstead which has usually been kept on display in one of the guest rooms of the White House. When the present Edward of Wales visited the U. S., he examined the old four-poster with some interest, for once, during the Buchanan Administration, it had been used by a previous Prince of Wales? he who later became Edward...
...Swedish Ballet appeared in America to repeat the revolutionary music and dances, with which it startled Paris. It began courageously with a set of New York performances (TIME, Dec. 10). It presented its full display of ear shockers and brain perplexers, including the fearsome Sacre du Printemps, music by Stravinsky. It went in uncompromisingly for musical modernism, with especial emphasis on the works of the famous "Six" of Paris, those bold youths who, headed by Darius Milhaud, have devoted their ingenuities to baiting the conservatives. In Paris, the performances given by the Swedish troupe were extravagantly loved and hated...
...Miles Standish. The casual and the captious witness will be decidedly at odds over this portion of Puritan romance. The former, vaguely recalling the sugar coated capsule fed him by a forgotten history teacher, will go in and out delightedly. The latter, unwilling to be betrayed into a display of unpremeditated emotion, will seek feverishly for flaws. Of these there seems to be an abundance. The scenes were rather obviously made in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a Hollywood studio. Priscilla is played by Enid Bennett in her best molasses manner. Even the captious, however, must assent to the general approbation...
...Crimson will have to display an improved offensive if the University is to come away victorious, for such rough-and-tumble fracases as that which led to Harvard's lone tally two days ago cannot be relied on to produce enough scores to outweigh the points which the slightly speedier Toronto forwards are almost certain to slip across...
...Fogg Art Museum announced yesterday a large number of important permanent acquisitions and loans of works of art, which have been received during the past few weeks. These additions to a collection which is already over-flowing the building present a serious problem of adequate display to the directors of the Museum...