Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anticipating some sort of protest, Professor Pitkin explained through the press that he had not meant to suggest that the alleged Wilson infirmities were "shameful" or "monstrous." "Thousands of people cheerfully exhibit and endure far worse ills of the flesh. . . . He might have avoided most of the myriad condemnations simply by being honest and admitting physical frailties. But this would have interfered with his restless aspirations. Voters would never elect sick men as governors and presidents...
This sentiment seldom cloys because Ernest Truex gives the most serious, tender performance of his career and Marda Vanne as the wife never forgets restraint. Certain episodes exhibit flagrancies of aste. But when the daughter (Maisie Darrel) confesses her troubles to a stalwart boy who wants her love (Robert Douglas), the scene trembles with tragedy and gallantry. And a parody of court procedure is introduced which provides peerless comic relief...
...teaching material in print, then it must be quarried out of the mine of current business practice and a Bureau of Business Research must be created. If no case books had yet been collected, business men could be induced by the persuasion of Mr. A. W. Shaw to exhibit themselves and their troubles as clinical material--walking cases. In the meantime, teaching of the established type could go on in the subjects that already had some academic traditions, pending alterations. And in other subjects, the matter of the course could be dissected and outside specialists brought in to handle...
...official museum of art in New York City. Last week art circles were stirred by news that Manhattan is to have a U. S. Luxembourg.* Spurred by the fact that in Cleveland, The Hague, Rotterdam, Worcester and all great art-conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition of the sires of today's "modern" art: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir. The committee has leased a gallery-sized room. For two years...
Death Problem. In London one Leslie Faber talked, acted in sound-film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit-living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells...