Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...
...Century escritoire even. But he has put in some few solid years lumber jacking, he has hunted and trapped in nearly every wild section of the world. "For my part, I am going to give the lion and the tiger a sporting chance. I shall hunt them with the bow and arrow...
Another night, the Bow Street police station over the way from Covent Garden had a telephone call. Reserves, please; the crowd was getting burly. Twenty-five shilling seats ($6) had brought ten guineas ($50). People had heard that that stately young Viennese who sings Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was given to temperamental outbursts...
There is a rumor that this Class Day number is Lampy's final bow for the year. If this be true, it would not be well to dismiss the jovial jester without earnest praise. Lampy has undoubtedly been greatly rejuvenated this year, and has shown promise of regaining a lost standard of virtue. The Literary Digest and Business School numbers are too outstanding to require mention, while the issue in commemoration of the Irish saint was not far behind in point of excellence...
...last appearance in all probability of Spalding before the Yale series and before the final bow of one of the greatest college pitchers of recent years against one of the Big Three, will be seen when the University nine travels to Worcester to oppose Holy Cross on Fitton Field. The game is scheduled to begin at 3 o'clock...