Word: showing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eyeing his brief case in the path of the cameras he tossed it aside and said: "I want to get this badge of bureaucracy hidden where it won't show...
These presidential actions were based on recommendations by the Tariff Commission. Statistics were offered to show that in each case foreign production costs were less than U. S. costs. The President said: "The farmers and others should have the benefit of the Tariff Commission's determination at once...
Pansy, a Negro revue, lasted just three hissful performances. Said Dramacritic J. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: ''Purely for purposes of historical record let this bema announce that the worst show of all time was . . . produced . . . last evening...
Lean, wiry Bacha Sakao, "The Water Carrier," bandit King of Afghanistan sat, unconcerned, in the capital city of Kabul last fortnight while the King he drove from the throne, plump, oily Amanullah, prestidigitated in far off Kandahar to show his fitness to rule...
...suspicious Kandahar Afghans plump Amanullah promised last fortnight to show the famed Khirkai Shereef (Prophet's Cloak), a religious relic of great potency kept in a locked box which only "a man fit to be King" can open. The holy cloak has rarely been seen for the last 200 years. Bearded Afghans assembled by thousands for the show...