Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ On the passenger list of the Normandie, just before it sailed from Manhattan, a purser spied the name of Acee Blue Eagle. Publicity-wise, that official hunted down a tall, husky Amerindian, persuaded him to exchange his grey business suit for a red blanket and a headdress of blue...
Vertichord. On exhibition in connection with the conventions were a new kind of piano called the Vertichord, and a new piano action invented by William Finholm.
"A. Hitler" read the signature on five competent water colors on exhibition last week in Munich. No namesake, the artist was in fact the same half-starved Austrian man-of-all-work who rose to be Germany's Realmleader.
In 1932, lanky, lantern-jawed Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson, then famed only as a basketball player, proved at the Olympic Games that she was the world's best woman track athlete. In 1934, she learned baseball well enough to pitch in exhibition games for the St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Athletics. She...
Few prizewinners have had to survive more exhausting tests. In other years, preliminary competitions reduced the candidates to eight finalists at the most who were then assembled in Manhattan for a final problem. This year, however, instead of being allowed to finish that problem at home where instructors sometimes lent...