Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S editors, bemused by gout, evidently have never leapt walls. In your issue of Jan. 17 you show a picture of Britain's gaitered Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain "leaping" a stone wall. Look more closely. There is a ladder in the right-hand corner. Mr. Chamberlain has climbed up the ladder and is now gingerly stepping off. He is going to land stiff-legged at that. He will probably wryly agree that a leap should be goaty, not gouty...
Although Nuffield will be remembered when many a belted earl and many a British statesman are forgotten dust, Mayfair has been too inclined to dismiss his magnificent philanthropies as vulgar show of wealth. Last week, however, aristocrats could read in the Sunday Express about something they appreciated, Viscount Nuffield's ancestors...
...Portland, crippled onetime Singer Leonard Taylor, who has judged shows from Montreal to San Diego, had 200 birds to listen to. Until Judge Taylor was ready to hear them, the birds were kept in a darkened bedroom of Portland's Heathman Hotel, occasionally fed oily black rape seed that their voices might be mellow. By teams of four, then singly, Judge Taylor had them brought into another room, where bright light made them burst into song. If they were reticent, he shook a wooden rattle, coaxed, "Come on, boy." Listening for Rolls, Gluckes, Bells, Schokels, Flutes, and for faults...
...Oakland, Calif, and Portland, Ore., for shows of two of the Pacific Coast's three important Roller associations, breeders last week hopefully expressed their prize birds. The complicated work of judging Oakland's 250 showbirds fell to Frank Bires and William Ragon (for their services, $300 each). They gave the show's master team championship to a quartet owned by San Diego's Olsen Schummer. It was the team's twelfth successive first prize...
THESE poems do not, as some critics have asserted, show particular technical incompetence. Doubtless even in the 18th contury when critic and publisher were more fastidious, technically Mr. Hillyer's couplets would have been printable, although their manner would have been considered peculiar. This manner (I mean by manner a mingling of substance and style), however, because of its diffilusiveness and giddiness is discouraging...