Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White House where "Silent Cal" Coolidge once volubly tried to relieve his shyness; or whether he remembered the Library of Congress, where once, with an injured arm, he shook hands for hours with thousands of people until, the pain becoming unbearable, he quietly excused himself, went behind a screen and fainted. Then he had been the coming King-Emperor, toasted, courted, toadied to as no other man has been in the 20th Century; now he was a lonely exile, Governor of The Bahamas, flyspeck-islands important chiefly to another country than his own. He told the National Press Club...
...days the Blues slowly advanced, the Reds slowly retired. Then the Second got its orders. Its commander, squeak-voiced Major General George S. Patton Jr., who hides much military culture behind the Army's best smoke screen of profanity, was ready to deliver a telling blow...
...Captain Hugh B. Ellis of the Red troops, a scholarly officer whose spectacles were now flaked with mud, was in his way with a small holding force. Tank guns barked. Soldiers shouted as they piled off truck and tank and into the fray. Colonel Morris laid down a smoke screen, called for help from his accompanying artillery...
Best-looking entries in the show were a group of splashily printed fabrics, done with the silk-screen process by Czechoslovak Architect Antonin Raymond. Most practical furniture was a set of unit bookcases and cupboards by Cranbrook, Mich.'s Eero Saarinen (son of famed Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen) and Charles Eames. Resting on smooth, knee-high benches, the Saarinen and Eames cupboardry could be stacked in as many window-seat and pigeonhole combinations as any modern apartment would hold...
Today and tomorrow bring the last half of the U.T.'s high-pressure cram session for undernourished addicts. With machine-gun precision, four famous pictures will be dragged up from the libraries of the past and shown on the local screen. All this for the price of one ticket...