Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amber set the Court vogue for mixed nude bathing in the Thames and for low-necked dresses. "Ods-fish, madame," cracked the King, "the greatest display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses' milk, attended by Herman, her Algerian eunuch. "Pray, no ceremony here," Amber would cry, rising from her marble tub: "Herman-fling me a towel...
Representing the accomplishments of 120 publishers, the book section of the display is intended to show what the "average good book of Argentina" is like. Subject matter ranges from children's books to philosophy and the history...
...fact that it is the first volcano they have been able to watch from birth. Last week, fresh from an expedition to it, Geologist Paul O. McGrew of the Chicago Natural History Museum made a scientific report on Paricutin. Said he, among other things: "This tremendous display was beyond all description. ... On leaving this monster I felt as though I were leaving a World Series baseball game in the sixth inning with the score tied...
...display of cultural interest in things Shakespearian was overpowering. Bill Powell, Bob Zehrung, Dick Rowles, Ralph Rolling, and Bob Ronshoim were on hand at the Shubert early to see "Othello." Bob Ronshoim took time out from his interests in the racial question to review his controversial play. In the light of this experience, Bob has decided that Moors are a special case and it in no way affects his arguments...
...back pay the average private left the army with $250 in his pocket. But as the tumult and the shouting died, the old civilian mistrust of the soldier revived. Jobs were easy to find, but veterans often discovered that an ,army record was something to conceal rather than to display. "The veteran," wrote one newspaper, "has encouraged tales of his whiskey-drinking abilities, [recklessness] and foraging [until] citizens believe that the army has acted as a school of demoralization...