Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know about pre-Spanish America dims about 20 centuries of history. Much of what they do know has been dug up with scraps of Mayan, Toltec and Aztec sculpture. Last week a few of the existing clues to the Western Hemisphere's rich, mysterious cultural past were on display in Mexico City...
...wrote Indignant Citizen to the Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat. Indignant Citizen had been roused by a characteristic Peglerian display of calculated bad temper, in which Pegler accused Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal of "a dangerous conspiracy . . . to abolish the freedom of the whole people." The Tallahassee paper, well aware that everybody talks about Pegler but nobody does anything about him, said it would take a vote if enough readers demanded one. The demands quickly filled three columns. Among them...
When Kahn replied that he did not think the idea timely, Harris flung out: "I asked for your money, not your advice." Despite his bellows and bravura, no body has ever denied Harris' charm when he wants to display it, or his unfailing vigor in the theater. Remarked one friend : "Jed will quarrel with you, he will embarrass you, he will break your heart, he will drive you crazy - but he will al ways be good for the show...
Triumph of a Personality. Andrew Jackson's career as a general lasted only 18 months. His success was more one of personality than of military skill. Irascible and impatient, he won his soldiers' admiration by a steady display of fire and courage. He did not hesitate to call his superiors in the War Department "intermeddling pimps and spies." His emergence as a popular hero was the result less of tactical victories over the British, Spanish and Indians than of his highhanded triumphs over entrenched officialdom and political chicanery...
...display its virtuosity, the orchestra ig nored the critics, kept a shrewd eye on the cash customers in selecting its program: Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony, Fernandez' Batuque, Griffes' White Peacock, Strauss's Dance of the Seven Veils...