Word: shew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even so, some 30,000 of Nature's noblemen did shew up on the 4th. of March, the appointed day. I will take the liberty of saying that they were not entirely as Diciplined as my Democratic boosoom could have wished. I clearly recall asking in my Inaugural Address for "the indulgence ... of my fellow-citizens." Scarce an hour had elapsed before I saw verry much more Indulgence than I had anticipated...
...century and a half later, seem like the never-never land of Arcady - veils it from us. It amounted to a prediction of impressionism, 40 years ahead. It was an attempt, as Constable put it, "to arrest the more abrupt and transient appearances of the Chiaroscuro in Nature, to shew its effect in the most striking manner, to give 'to one brief moment, caught from fleeting time' a lasting and sober existence...