Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Year is a time alike of retrospection and of prospection. People look back and see that their cash accounts have been ridiculously handled; that their time gas been wanted here and there, and that such treasured ideals as Efficiency and Purpose have gone to the damnation bow-wows. And then they look ahead and make resolutions. Those holes in the trouser pockets shall be sewed up, and the old gentleman with the hour-glass and the sickle shall march more properly in time to the music. This above all; everybody will henceforward be true to his purpose. Everybody...
...bygone years Frau und Mutter Hainisch, spouse of a potent industrialist, vigorously directed her son's education at Leipzig and his subsequent career in the courtly civil service of Franz Josef, Austrian Emperor, Hungarian King. But, in order that her son might have two strings to his bow, wise Mutter Hainisch encouraged her Michael to become the erudite and scholarly writer of some 25 volumes on sociology, finance, colonization, ethnology, migration, marriage, and political and social science. Though President Hainisch's hobby is milk cows, he is even now industriously and perhaps dutifully at work upon...
...lives today in an apartment on a street called Linwood Place in St. Paul, Minn. Aged 68, he is tall, rawboned, mustached. His eyes are pale blue. He dresses neatly and simply-black hat, oldtime wash necktie (or a hook-on bow), celluloid collar. His automobile is a 1927 Studebaker. He does not drive it. Neither does he drive golf or tennis balls. He chews tobacco, spits the juice. He plays solitaire, reads Shakespeare, keeps a garden farm near Granite Falls, Minn. A widower, he has a daughter named Laura, who drives the Studebaker and keeps the house. Last week...
They backed a truck up against Clara Bow's dressing apartment at the Paramount studios in Hollywood. It took a long while to load the truck; and then they drove it away to a storage warehouse. The idea: to get rid of 250,000 letters from cinema-bugs, which had been cluttering Miss Bow's apartment...
According to figures approved by Postmaster P. P. O'Brien of Los Angeles, Miss Bow received 35,339 letters during the month of June, 33,727 during...