Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinary ceremonies which the Army R.O.T.C. alone holds in its annual reviews, such as the presentation of awards, will be dispensed with in this display...
Enlightener Paul Joseph Goebbels decreed the merry month of May "Politeness Month," ordered the holding of competitions in the display of good humor...
...many occasions, nearly proven disastrous to the father's brittle arteries. Vautier the Elder's aversion to the gallery and its wares had been heightened by the indisputable fact that practically all of the other employes, the owner, most of the artists whose work was on display, and four-fifths of the customers were homosexual...
Unlike the histories of painting and music, always available to their devotees in concert halls and art galleries where the theories and developments of technique are constantly on display, the history of the drama is a cloudy one to most theatre-goers. Only in reading old plays can the drama lover understand how the theatre has arrived at its present state of realism, verging now towards presentationalism. But reading a play does not recapture the style of the acting or of the settings or give any of the flavor that might have made it a great success...
...though the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey show has traded atmosphere for oomph, its exhibits are much the same as ever. There are no longer any tumbling Japs; but 600-lb., 12-year-old Gargantua is still on display in the basement. The sad, crummy-looking clowns still provoke mirth. Massimilliano Truzzi still juggles flaming torches; the Wallendas ride a bicycle tandem on the high wire; the Flying Concellos do their breathless, double-and-triple-somersault flying leaps; the lions & tigers look simultaneously ferocious and bored; the trained seals render My Country, 'Tis of Thee; and the band still...