Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension. Then comes Drought. Gloomily John is about...
...suggest a tie-up in an African Festival of your African Exhibit with the SHOGOLA ALOBA, the native African dancers from the Awassa, Temeni, Kru, Mendi, and Asaba Tribes of West Africa...
Speaking of museums, brings to mind a touching little item in the history of Fogg Art Museum's publicity efforts. It seems that the directors of the Fogg arranged for an exhibit of native African jewelfy, ceremonial masks, fetish figures, and other nick knacks so dear to the home-loving jungle resident. A report of the exhibit appeared in several newspapers...
Including one of the sixteen perfect first editions of the folio of Shakespeare's Plays, the second most valuable English edition of Montaigne's Essays in the world, and rare quarto editions of Shakespeare's Plays, genuine and spurious, the fifteen-volume Shakespeare exhibit now displayed in the Widener Memorial Room is estimated to be worth over...
...Exhibit A and largest item of the total value is the first edition of the folio, printed by Jaggard and Blount in London, 1623. This volume, part of Harry Widener's private collection, is the most costly book in the Harvard University Library. Only recently Abraham S. W. Rosenbach paid in the neighborhood of $70,000 for one like it, remarking at the time that he was getting the bargain of his book buying experience...