Word: highlighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting whom, will welcome Author Sullivan's introductory table of Declarations of War, which makes it clear, for instance, that whereas Siam fought both Germany and Austria but not Turkey. Guatemala fought only Germany. Besides numerous cartoons, war maps, newspaper headlines, Compiler Sullivan has exhumed many a curious highlight from the museumed files. Some of them: versions (bowdlerized) of the bawdy war song. "Mademoiselle from Armentieres"; "gasless Sunday." when every patriot did his bit by parking his car in the garage for the day; the late Theodore Roosevelt's furious attempts to get permission from the Government...
...Highlight of last week's exhibition was a broadside of the Oath of Hippocrates, set by Bertha Goudy in Fred Goudy's Forum type. This was saluted by the greatest U. S. printer, Bruce Rogers, as "the finest piece of printing I ever...
...Highlight of the exhibition was a series taken in Manhattan burlesque theatres. Lohse had surreptitiously snapped queens of the famed "strip" routine in the split-second of removing their last skirt and flouncing into the wings. He had caught the slovenly posturing of the chorus on the runway. Other series showed the chorus of Take a Chance (TIME, Dec. 12) swirling their skirts, Jazz Singer Ethel Merman in consecutive poses of singing "Rise and Shine," colored Ethel Waters singing ''Stormy Weather," Actress Lynn Fontanne Lunt making up her face, and the show girls of Manhattan...
Grant's match in the State squash championship race was the highlight of the weekend athletic events. Defeating Patterson of the Business School, 3-2 in a tight five-game match, he is the worthy successor to Beekman Pool '32, who has won this tournament for the last two years, and who just won the New York State crown...
...blond bachelor, able Richmond lawyer, smart Republican politician, long-time Dry. Last summer Mr. Anderson went to Europe, studied first-hand the Bratt system of liquor-control in Sweden, gathered other material on which to devise a liquor-selling system for the U. S. The ''Anderson Plan" was a highlight of the separate opinions which won the endorsement of five other Commissioners...