Word: showing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lion, whose name was Wallace, was not looking for the calf or Nelly. He was simply anxious to preserve a new freedom he had found when the menagerie truck in which he, a $2,500 show lion, had been riding was wrecked in a road smash. While the wreck was being untangled, Wallace had trotted down the road and lain down, blinking at the Dorset sun, rolling now and then in the Dorset dust. When his keeper approached, over a hedge had leaped Wallace and brought up in puzzlement before Nelly's calf...
...little party planned for the St. Catherine's Horse Show have made their reservations at Niagara Falls, be careful! One of your wives...
Similarly, talk about himself for the presidency was no novelty to Hero Young, who heard quite a bit of it early last year. If he heard last week's Washington talk he did not show it but prepared, after the wedding, to present his "private citizen" self in Washington; to report with his colleague John Pierpont Morgan to President Hoover; to explain, as one economist to another, just what the Young Plan of readjusted reparations means to the U. S., as to world peace. First to bestow formal Kudos upon Hero Young was the Roosevelt Memorial Association, which last...
...problems and passing others over for future study. By far the most picturesque meeting in its history, it was one of the least fruitful. General Primo de Rivera's government had contrived to make it, with the Seville and Barcelona Expositions (TIME, May 20), Spain's biggest show. Hampered by publicity, the Council members resorted more than ever to secret sessions and corridor conferences to get their real work done...
Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, Chicago gangman now jailed for one year in Philadelphia, once met Charles B. Cochrane, famed London theatre man. Last week in London Manager Cochrane said: "I asked Capone if he were going to see a certain musical show. He replied that he never went to musical shows and that his favorite dramatists are George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward and Shakespeare...