Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Barney Oldfield, king bee of the speedway buzz wagons, drove his Green Dragon around and around a dirt track at Barbee's Park in South Joplin. Clouds of choking dust failed to strangle cheers of the thousands (correct) in an inadequate frame grandstand and lining the track. An exhibition...
¶ The New York "Yankees": the national soccer championship, with a ten-man team (Capt. Alex McNab fractured his arm the day before in an exhibition game); from the Chicago "Bricklayers"; 2 to 0, in Chicago.
Protesting that "functionalistic" modern architecture was being excluded from the exhibition, Art Dealer Thomas Mabry and a number of architects held a rump show on West 57th Street of their rejected concrete-and-gaspipe designs. But the committee of the Architectural League had not excluded all examples of functional architecture...
Notably absent from the exhibition was the storm centre of modern architecture, the model for $250,000,000 Radio City. The designers were still tinkering with it last week. Prominently present, however, was bristle-headed, kinetic Raymond Hood's model for the scarlet-blue-&-gold Electrical Building for the...
In Kansas City, Mo., the National Bootjack Association held an exhibition. Best bootjack was that of Woodrow Weaver, 16. It was auctioned off for $100 (for the Red Cross), sent off to General John Joseph ("Blackjack") Pershing. Governor Harry Woodring of Kansas exhibited a bootjack which was sold for $6...