Word: arrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spring Note: Archery has finally muscled in at Harvard. The recent discovery of an arrow sticking suspiciously far up in the Lowell House tower can be linked to an equally intriguing bit of news relayed us by one of our spies. While rowing up the river in a shell he was amused to see a shiny new arrow floating downstream followed by another, equally new and every bit as shiny. After really going to town on the problem he learned that they were two of three purchased, together with a "Robin Hood" standard brand bow, from Sears, Roebuck...
While repainting Lowell House's tall Tower recently, the members of the Maintenance Department were puzzled to find a bright new arrow driven deeply into the woodwork. It was supposed at first that someone had been hunting pigeons from the rooftops. Investigation proved however that a local archer had let fly in irritation after being disturbed by the infamous Bells...
...that you have never heard of Warner Donald. This time we find "Charlie Chan at the Circus," and as usual, he snoops around very casually under the Big Top, tossing off chopped up Chinese aphorisms every few minutes, always progressing straight as an arrow towards the solution of his case. Charlie is such a marvelous detective, and he has pulled so many surprises out of his bag in former pictures that we have gotten used to astonishing plots, particularly the one in "Charlie Chan at the Circus." Imagine our profound disappointment when we discovered that a beastly, ferocious murderer...
...meeting of the Church League for Industrial Democracy that scandalized B. & O.'s tall, arrow-straight John Cornwell, 68, who attends Episcopal churches. Said General Counsel Cornwell to a Y. M. C. A. gathering in Baltimore last week: "My hair stood on end when I read those resolutions. I drew the line when I saw they advocated social equality with Negroes in church offices and they wanted to stop those who would penalize overthrow of our government by force. ... If that's going to be the doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, I'm going...
...portrayal of the appearance and garb of inhabitants of far-off lands is given on a pack of 18th century French "educational" cards. The artist's conception of the American aborigine is a dusky savage dressed in skins with a bow in one hand and an arrow in the other. Local color is provided by a backdrop of a crocodile, representing American wild life...