Word: displays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conversation he had with me at the Elysée Palace," declared M. Poincaré, "the American Ambassador said, 'If Paris is taken, I will display our star-spangled banner over your monuments and museums! I will go to the utmost limits of my power to protect the inhabitants against pillage and oppression...
...good humor people say 'Look at this display of good humor -they must be very well off.' If we are serious and thoughtful, then people say it is all hypocrisy. They want to make us believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady...
When Thomas and Light met later in the evening to decide the title, both were tired from their first fights. Thomas gave a fine display of headwork by clinching and tieing up light's dangerous right; but the latter broke free often enough to land telling blows, and in the third round overwhelmed Thomas with driving punches...
...Detroit's All-American Aircraft Show will display 107 planes, surpassing Chicago's International Aeronautical Show of last December (TIME, Dec. 17). Manhattan conducted a much smaller show in February (TIME, Feb. 18). Pittsburgh's first exhibition a fortnight ago held 23 planes and five gliders, initiated many a sale and agency. Other important air shows this year are scheduled at Indianapolis and Cleveland. The Gardner Annual Trophy Race at St. Louis also functions as a show...
...lecture yesterday was a continuation and expansion of the introductory one of Professor Sachs, in which was outlined the general art history of the nineteenth century, an age marked by a battle of opposing traditions." These two discussions were given in connection with the French exhibitions now on display at the Fogg and at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art. They are of particular significance because of the general ignorance and vagueness, which has clouded this period in art. Professor Pope's introductory article in the forthcoming catalogue of the Fogg exhibition to some extent handles...