Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...annually by the National Press Club went Franklin Roosevelt last week. Last year at this dinner the President was poisoned by bad capon, but this year the food was as excellent as the wine (Lanson 1928). In deference to his philately, a lantern-slide performance was staged to show a new series of stamps commemorating high moments
...dummies. Other correspondents have reported that Japanese bombers rain tons of expensive explosives on Chinese ''airplanes" and "tanks" which, upon capture, turn out to be reed matting or wooden imitations placed in the open to draw fire. Last week pictures arrived in the U. S. which show heads and shoulders of Chinese "soldiers" cut out of tin, nailed on stakes and jabbed into trenches-to make the Japanese think that Chinese trench lines were strongly manned...
Ordinarily, Sennep's wit has saved his fantastic obscenities from suppression and himself from duels and beatings-up. This year he and Gassier had the cartoonist's equivalent of a retrospective show in the form of a book, Histoire de France 1918-1938, reviving their more famous drawings of the past 20 years, including Sennep's recent (1936) Embarcation for Spain...
Once a year, a grand get-together of U. S. foxhunters (hilltoppers and hunt-club members alike) is held-under the auspices of the National Foxhunters' Association-for the purpose of holding field trials, a hound show and horse show. At Winchester, Ky. last week swank Eastern socialites, sombreroed Texas ranchers, rich Oklahoma Indians and Kentucky hillbillies met on common ground at the 45th annual foxhunters' jamboree. Competitions were open to any foxhunter who had paid his $5 membership fee to the national association...
...Last week Tobacco Road played in Augusta, Ga., a few miles from the play's locale. To get the price of a gallery seat Tobacco Readers industriously picked beans, Playwright Erskine Caldwell's father, the Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell, shepherded them to Augusta for the show...