Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Capitalist-pilgrim Hyde has dwelt for some years at Paris; is a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; has received degrees honoris causa, from Princeton and the University of Rennes, France; wears a pointed mustache, a Van Dyck beard, often a floppy bow...
...University Glee Club will make its final bow of the season to the audiences of Symphony Hall at a concert to be held on Thursday at 8.15 o'clock. One hundred and fifty men have been chosen from the membership of the Glee Club to take part in this concert which is the third of its kind to be held at Symphony Hall since the College opened last fall...
Before the new Viceroy many another potentate must bow: the Maharaja of Mysore, known as the most progressive of Indian rulers; the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, better known as "Mr. A."; the Maharaja of Patiala, whose habit it is to attend European social functions literally swathed in pearls. . . . All these sovereigns, by a sublime irony, are now under the benevolent tutelage of a gentleman who was known until a month ago merely as the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood...
...Bow Street...
...eighteenth century, the pleasant period of highwaymen and catch-polls and Bow Street runners that romances batten on, is the Paradise of those writers who deal in the inexplicably appealing figure of the complete rogue. Defoe was the first to greatly plead the case of the unregenerate; there have been many since who fall back not on manner or significance but on the devil-may-care, romantic interest that lies in a man without ordinary morals who succeeds in living by his wits...