Word: exhibitioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In 1928, when enough women took up the game to make competition exciting, Eleo (as she is known in swish circles) won the first national squash racquets championship for women. The following year, she held famed Professional Walter Kinsella, world's squash tennis champion from 1914-26, to a...
In London, hairy old British Portraitist Augustus John, incorrigible bohemian, foe of the Royal Academy, glared at an exhibition of landscapes by his daughter, Vivien, then bought another artist's painting in the same show. Asked his opinion of his daughter's work, he snorted: "Rubbish!"
Said Ben Marshall, famed 18th-Century English sporting artist: "I can sell a man a print of his horse for 50 guineas, but a print of his wife brings only 5." With this sage precept in mind, a group of Manhattan socialites set out to organize an exhibition for the...
With a spectacular exhibition of power among its relatively inexperienced wrestlers, the Crimson wrestling team walloped the Tufts grapplers, 24 to 8, Saturday afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building. At the same time the Freshmen tied a strong Tufts 1943 team, 20-20, with the advantage of two defaults to...
Most library exhibitions are the englassed sort which chiefly interest bibliophiles-rare first editions, original manuscripts, fine bindings, and such. Of a different sort is an exhibition now showing at Chicago's Newberry Library.