Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Largest pet on display was Clover Leaf. a cow. Oldest were two tortoises claimed to be 350-500 years old. Smallest was an unidentified fish. Loudest was Susie, the Sebastopol goose. Most desperate were 462 squeaking canaries lodged in a crate exhibit. Most indifferent were two Llamas, who chewed cud quietly for five days. Most valuable per pound were two lion-headed goldfish valued at $500 each. Youngest were a litter of white mice born just as the show closed. Most popular was a baby elephant known variously as Bozo, Buddy and Buck. Least popular was a timid young skunk...
Today Tetsuzan Hori is recognized by naturalists as a duck authority. He has lectured on ducks, published monographs on ducks. Main reason for his visit to the U. S. was not to exhibit his paintings but to sit by U. S. duck ponds, meditate on U. S. ducks. He announced last week that the two most interesting birds in the U. S. were the Canada goose and the American wood duck. U. S. critics were deeply impressed with his technical dexterity, his uncanny reproduction of the texture of feathers, but, accustomed to the ideals of modern European paintings, found...
...Harvard Freshman Union yesterday when the 1935 Tea Dance Committee posted twelve telegrams it has received from great and near-great surrounding a picture of a Hollywood film beauty autographed to the Dance Committee. Groups of first year men congested the hallway in their attempts to read the huge "Exhibit A" as it dangled from the neck of a buffalo head...
...rather unusual feature of the exhibit is an epistle from Nelson to Lord Hamilton, written with its author's right hand after he had lost his left arm in the battle of the Nile. In another of the letters Nelson refers to his famous words. "England expects every man to do his duty...
There will also be throughout the month an exhibit of 15th and 16th century prints and engravings by Mantegna, Antonio Pollaiuolo, Durer, Schongauer and others...