Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take exception to an insinuation wholly unjustifiable. You state that Mrs. Hepburn "started the show" (a good description of the hearing before the Judiciary Committee) by insisting "We are not connected with any commercial interest*." That asterisk calls attention to your footnote which states that contraceptives were on exhibit in a room at the Mayflower Hotel during the Birth Control Conference in Washington held at the Mayflower. The inference is unmistakable. Was it intended? Perhaps you do not know that admission to the exhibit was by card only; that the distribution of those cards was carefully supervised; that with...
...material that we have collected will form a new part of the Peabody Museum, containing more individual pieces than any other exhibit. At present, we are busy repairing the valuable pottery, a job in which we are being aided by several very able Boston debutantes...
Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...
Most conspicuous exhibit at the show was that of another famed boat-building family, the Wheelers, father and four sons. Months before the show opened Son Wesley Wheeler studied a floor plan of the exhibit hall, calculated that a 54-ft. ship was the biggest that could possibly be squeezed in. At their Brooklyn. N. Y. plant the Wheelers proceeded to build a 54-footer, serenely aware that nobody could steal the show from them. With salty, side-whiskered Father Howard Ernest Wheeler looking on, the big cruiser, a yacht-like affair with flying bridge and twin screws, was warped...
...there were no examples of the whole school of late 19th Century realism that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning forests and over real waterfalls, in which locomotives and galloping horses cluttered the stage. Nor was there any exhibit to remind spectators of the painfully accurate productions of the late David Belasco. The entire modern school of stage design stems from a reaction against the fustiness of these spectacles...