Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...volume bound in human skin, with the somewhat ironical title of "Little Poems for Little Folk." A removal of 20 square inches of skin from his back failed to impair the health of its donor, who is still alive and in the best of condition. Also contained in the exhibit are "Galileo," the smallest book printed from movable type, and the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khaiyam," the tiniest volume ever printed. The latter, about half the size of a dime, was produced by a special photo-reducing process; the only other extant copy of it resides in the British Museum...
Bitterly the dogs' owners accused a rival exhibitor (unnamed) of the poisoning. Calling dog shows "a filthy racket," Mrs. Joseph J. O'Donohue III, part owner of Lenz, declared she would never again exhibit. She had received anonymous letters threatening that the dog would never compete in this winter's shows. There has been bitter dissension lately among members of the Dachshund Club of America...
...Ross, well known in his profession, is endeavoring, through a private venture, to teach art by his new theory, known as the setpallette method. This consists basically of producing the natural colonization of a painting by using only certain colors, limited in both number and variety. These oils on exhibit consist mainly of portraits and figure studies...
...them they jot down Ideas for future reference: the ideas are not necessarily their own, and no law says that they have to be. Many a note-jotting author collects phrases, verses and poems that strike his fancy. Usually not until Fame or Death has overtaken them do artists exhibit their sketchbooks or writers their notes. Aldous Huxley, reasonably far from Death, is not so far from Fame. On the strength of his previous work many a Huxley reader will buy this notebook ("an anthology with commentaries"), will find the comment keen, the choice of quotations illuminating. Note-Taker Huxley...
...Rockne," chanted a blonde in a streamlined yellow dress. By the Chevrolet exhibit stood a tall young man in the red costume and black busby of the Scots Guards. A cinema showed, while a voice told, how Studebakers can tumble down a hill, be righted and driven off; how they can hurtle over bumps without capsizing or breaking springs. A jacked-up Hupmobile lit with a clavilux raced against a pastoral landscape conveying a dreamlike blonde who pretended to shift gears and then stared at the crowd, not replying to youths, flushed by dinner, who requested a ride. A horrible...