Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heirlooms, including fistfuls of diamonds, rubies and emeralds, gemmed bracelets, solid gold service pieces, a red plush autograph book first signed in 1603, and a gold-bound Bible-a wedding gift of England's Queen Victoria to her daughter and Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia-were on exhibit in the Army Public Relations director's office in Washington. The Army valued them at $3,000,000. While newsmen stared and photographed them, the Army told fantastic bits & pieces of the story of their recovery...
...Japanese connoisseur who saw the Army's exhibit last week would be quick to point out that Jacoulet is more of a craftsman than a draftsman. Compared with Utamaro and Hokusai, the old masters of print-making's great period (1600-1867), Jacoulet's designs have a long way to go. But he is reviving interest in a vanishing art, and for that, all Japanese patrons of prints could be grateful...
Chen's sentence capped a career at ironic variance with the literal translation of his name: "Exhibit Public Greatness." In the days when he was an honest man, Chen had never been more than a high-ranking functionary. Now he qualified as the great traitor only because Wang Ching-wei was dead and the Russians held Puppet Emperor Henry Pu-yi of Manchukuo...
...millions of U.S. cinemadorers who like their smorgasbord straight, wise Warner Bros, are taking no chances. Certain that Garbo is still best remembered as the East River waif in Anna Christie, they will soon exhibit Viveca in an adaptation of Ships in the River, a novel of the N.Y. waterfront...
Ottawa's gain was Toronto's gall. Officials of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum cried loudly that they had asked for the gown, hence should exhibit it. For five and a half years the two cities wrangled over the dress...