Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night," said Eleanor Roosevelt primly, explaining that they had merely held them up to see how they looked. Emperor Haile Selassie had sent a gold bracelet. Then she remembered a jeweled crown received two years ago. She did not remember who sent it, she added, but it was on display at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park. (At the library, the crown, 6 inches high and encrusted with jeweled birds and butterflies, is listed as a gift from the Sultan of Morocco.) As to the crown, said Eleanor with a smile, she never wears...
...Understand Capitalism. By U.S. standards, White found many of Russia's factories unclean and inefficient, its buildings drab and shoddy. "What is missing," he asserts, "is competition. Nobody bothers to put up a striking store front or a beautifully arranged window display. . . . The architect who drew the plans for that dreary workers' apartment had to please not the people who live in it, nor the promoter-owners who hope to keep it rented, but the Government officials. . . . This does not mean that the Russian people do not want beauty ... it means that they have a poor system...
...Phoenix's jointly-owned Arizona-Republic and Gazette dropped to tabloid size on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to save enough paper to be standard-sized the rest of the week. The tab editions will carry no display ads except for movies and churches...
...fight in the south may be tougher. Allied victory there is sure, but the shape of victory depends to some extent on the Germans' choice. They may put up a prolonged display of Götterdämmerung fireworks in the mountains of Bavaria and Austria; or they may fizzle out like a wet cannon-cracker...
...schemes are big. Very ambitious and very, very big"). Griselda, his beautiful wife, was afraid of him. Rolls's older sister Selina, who never married, was possessive, bitter and tyrannical. She ruled the house when her parents died. Pelham, Rolls's brother, was too inhibited to display his real emotions. Rolls himself never did anything he really wanted to do. It was the family that finally pushed him into the army...