Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...healthy and beautiful with her five-feet-eleven, her 160 pounds of bone and muscle, that excited friends gathered to inquire how she preserved her excellent physical condition. With a gay laugh, the large diva took the ladies of her acquaintance into her hotel bedroom and proceeded to show them. She rolled about on the floor, flinging her long legs in the air. She turned many somersaults, laughing heartily. "There," she said at last, panting and flushed, "that is what I do. That keeps me thin and agile...
Sponsored by five very various organizations, the show was composed of properly variegated inclusions. There was nothing in it of breathtaking excellence; Albert Laessle's Billy, a statue of a capricious goat, was much admired by visiting children. Cyrus Edwin Dallin, whose Appeal to the Great Spirit, stands in front of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, sent in several small bronzes; Richard Recchia showed his Frog Mountain. There were, perhaps, too many fat little boys squirting water and too many totally unimportant garden decorations...
...greater part of the volume. This interest is one which is centered entirely on the unraveling of the mysterious situation into which the reader and the hero, Roderick Hazzard, are thrown together. Without the plot, the work would have no content whatever. All the characters are over idealized and show no real development or subtlety throughout the three hundred odd pages of rapidly moving action...
...penalties exacted by the law for misdoings excel in rigor that demanded by the public of those who have committed the crime of becoming famous. Ridden through the city in an open car in the rain, surrounded by vociferous mobs whenever they dared show their faces, and finally forced to escape a throng of their well-wishers by a service elevator, the aviators now visiting Boston will have memories of a trip that was exciting if not always comfortable. Not that theirs is an exceptional case, for the past year has given the public many victims, but even an "annus...
While the various armies engaged in the current Chinese war maneuver under the leadership of rival generals with unpronounceable names, the policy of watchful waiting Japan has had to adopt since the Peace Conference took Shantung away from her begins to show sings of developing into more aggressive tactics. Nine years after the treaty, the rest of the world that retains any interest whatsoever in China has become thoroughly disillusioned as to the possibility of that country developing a peaceful regime unaided. So when the time comes, as appearance indicate it will before long, for intervention to be repeated...