Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vicar wrote to the Daily Herald: "I hardly expected to find half a hundred gaily attired men & women enjoying a display of such revolting cruelty." His letter said that the huntsmen had wantonly dug the fox out of its earth and tossed it "into the midst of a score of yelping hounds, who tugged at it to the accompaniment of its agonized screams." It gave, he added, "a frightful impression of bloodlust...
Dreyfus Echoes. At first glance, the letters seem only the posturings of a dilettante, but this impression soon wears off. Proust's letters display a remarkable transformation in character: from an effete youth to a sharp observer of the tragedy in life, from a superficially clever snob to a mordant analyst and remorseless judge of snobbery...
...convincing a display of shot artistry as has yet, or very well may over grace the Payne Whitney emporium, Tony Lavelli counted a miraculous 40 points to almost single-handedly thwack a gaping Tiger, 74-48, on Saturday night." (from the Yale Dally News, February...
...even in their years of dictatorship did Mussolini and Hitler dare display their pictures in their stage-managed parliaments. I was about to say that I did not know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...
Considered the best collection of 18th century apparatus in the United States, the display includes 45 pieces and will remain for a year. University scientists assembled it after digging for ten years through laboratory boneyards...