Word: displaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Passionate English. The Book of Costume also clearly documents how greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back...
Griscom also blasted hopes that the Owl would find the Cambridge climate a little too rugged in the winter months. "Owls display typical Harvard indifference when it comes to cold weather," Griscom said, "They are very well insulated, and 20 degrees below zero won't drive them away when there's plenty...
...dailies. How the average play producer feels about them is summed up in a current comedy by a character who calls them "middleaged men on the aisle who hated Mickey Mouse when they were kids." Nevertheless, a producer or a playwright is usually glad to quote critics in large display ads when they have something good to say about his show...
...this season, when his Anne of the Thousand Days (TIME, Dec. 20) set critics to reaching for their superlatives, Anderson was not mollified. With fellow members of the Playwrights' Company and Co-Producer Leland Hayward, Anderson decided to put the critics in their place by not taking any display ads nor quoting a word of their praise...
...shoppers who wanted to follow him in. Disturbed over the business he was obviously losing in off-hours, "Red" Kilgore last week set up a coin-operated salesman in his front window. By inserting a quarter in it, an off-hour window shopper can verbally order any item on display, have his name, address and phone number recorded on a tape inside. Next morning, store clerks transcribe the tape, recheck with customers by phone, and send out the orders. Kilgore, who plans to manufacture and lease the gadget, already has more than 300 orders for it from other stores...