Word: displays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike money from Broadway. The hero, played by the author, Frank Craven, masters gullible wealthy women for profit. One victim is a Pennsylvania factory girl, come to Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold...
...display also is a copy of Gray's "Odes" that was owned by Lord Byron when he was 16 years of age. In this is Byron's signature written in his longhand...
Besides being an incubator of fashions, first novels, potential potentates and U. S. esthetes, Oxford and Cambridge too, serve as an arena for the display of spirits, animal and otherwise. Such displays are called "rags,"* and are counted successful so far as they excite laughter...
...following review was written for the Crimson by one of the committee in charge of the exhibition on display in the Fogg museum at present...
...almost any minute of the day one may see splendid examples of courage and quick-thinking on the part of students crossing the Avenue perhaps, as long as it is possible, the situation should be endured as a breeder of Spartan qualities. There are some, it is true, who display a shameful cowardice and always wait for a crowd of their fellows to collect before attempting to cross in a body, but they are confined to the more timorous, or to graduate students with families dependent on them. The average undergraduate can give, in the network of Mack trucks, taxi...