Word: shows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chateau at Doom, Holland, a correspondent of the Dagens Nyheder, Copenhagen newspaper. The onetime Kaiser, now a grey-bearded old man, has seemingly lost none of his arrogance, none of his pomposity, none of his commanding dogmatism; for, complaining, he said to the Danish newspaperman: "I could show the road to peace, but the world prefers regarding me as a scapegoat to consulting me as an adviser...
...Robinson: "In some of the newer buildings in Moscow the architecture of American pyramided skyscrapers is imitated, and the revolving street signs for the control of traffic remind the American visitor of Broadway. The newest architecture, sculpture and painting show preoccupation with mechanical forms hardly to be matched in the United States, and magazines similar to Popular Mechanics are to be seen on all newsstands...
...statistics and figures show tremendous work accomplished and continuous improvement. Labor never before had conditions such as obtain now. The trade unions rule the country and everything is open to labor...
Boston has created a name for itself by showing extreme reluctancy to allow any musical show, good or bad, to leave town. The name of Jack Donahue would cause a riot where Modjeska and the Barrymores doing card tricks would not even excite a ripple. Small favors should be accepted gratefully; certainly there is an absence of really good drama but there are arid spots in every menu. Announcement of the coming of a Shakespearean company for a month's stay should hearten the gloomy and serve as an indicator, perhaps, for the future months. In the meantime...
Perhaps Master Vaupell did not sweep conscientiously, because subsequent records show the New York Stock Exchange wandering the Wall St. district, occupying now a tavern hall, another time a hay loft or a rented room, until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail...