Word: displayer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...striking scene wherein the elders display an ostrich morality, convinced that a scandal is buried if only a marriage takes place. But it rears its ugly head in another striking scene, when a fanatic Negro zealot arouses the primitive instincts of the phlegmatic Dutchmen by the simple process of beating a drum and thumping their theological frenzy. Louis Wolheim ("Hairy Ape") as the Negro handled that drum up to the climacteric hysteria like a Sousa of the soul. Ann Davis fills poignantly the repressed role of the girl, and Frank McGlynn ("Abraham Lincoln") and Kenneth MacKenna are two other stalwarts...
...Royal Academy of Arts opened its annual exhibition at the Burlington House, London. There are two sensations in this year's otherwise moderate display. The first is W. Russell Flint's sex picture, The Lemnians, a canvas displaying little more than coarse sensuality. (The Lemnians occupied Lemnos, an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. According to an old Greek legend, they murdered all the men on the island in revenge for desertion by their husbands. They were discovered by the Argonauts soon after...
...real field for practice in discussion seems to be section meetings; yet actually the procedure in the latter is little different from that of lectures. A natural reticence to display what might prove ignorance doubtless accounts for the lack of spirited debate; the habit of non-participation is easily acquired and becomes "proper...
This afternoon the Freshman track team will have to display unusual talent to down the Phillips Exeter Academy athletes. A squad of 41, headed by Coach O'Connell and Coach Teschner, will leave on the 1.15 o'clock train for Exeter bent on retrieving their laurels lost at Andover last Saturday. Although the Exeter team appears not to be quite up to the standard set by their rivals, their entries contain many experienced athletes, bound to threaten...
...primarily to reproduce the entire resources of the Commonwealth and thereby stimulate trade. The United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Colonies each have special pavilions in which to display their natural, commercial, industrial and artistic resources. One of the features of the Exhibition is the Palace of Engineering, covering an acreage six times the size of Trafalgar Square, in which some 300 engineering firms will have displays, and upon which the entire Exhibition will depend for its power...