Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future homemakers traipsed dutifully through the house furnishings show, looking over the latest things in draperies and taking test plops onto sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...
...first issue of the guide will catalogue events ranging from an exhibit of Italian and Dutch masters at the Gardner Museum to Holy Cross game dances from a lecture by Australia's U.N. delegate Herbert Evatt to Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in "Dark Passage...
...when the conference opened. I saw the parade as you described it. ... That the U.S. Embassy in Czechoslovakia objected was no surprise. I hope they sent their official protest direct to the White House, for the U.S.A. was the only nation there which did not sponsor and plan an exhibit...
...only one example of careful propaganda. Other countries did as well. Thousands of pamphlets were distributed that first day to help spread the communistic word. What did the U.S.A. do? Nothing. The eager young people who appeared for us paid their own way to Prague, collected their own exhibit items. They were nice kids, sincere, enthusiastic. If they did not represent our country as many of us believe it should be represented, blame the Government. . . . We failed completely to grasp the opportunity to show 30,000 serious boys & girls what the Government of America can mean to them...
This week shrewd Manhattan Art Dealer Sam Kootz opened a group show devoted to the weird shapes modern painters had made of women. His prize exhibit was a painting by the high priest of painful distortion, Pablo Picasso. Picasso's recent "Woman in Green"-a pink snout snoring over a swamp of green swirls-had successfully enraged London last year and was now appearing for the first time in the U.S. Georges Braque's supporting contribution was a painted plaster bas-relief of woman as lo, a harried heifer...