Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensitivity and loneliness. The rest was a sort of game. He was proud of being a great gourmet-like his friend Lord Houghton. who died murmuring: "My exit is the result of too many entrees." He was a wit; once he greeted a quack doctor with "a very low bow" and the words: "I hope, sir, that you will live longer than your patients." He tempered the generosity of a prince with a biting common sense-as in his answer to a request for money for a friend's tombstone: "I lent Maginn ?500 in his life time...
...Chronicle: THE QUEEN'S TV TRIUMPH! Cheered the Daily Sketch: "The Queen knocks those critics cold!" The only faultfinder was Donald Edgar of the Daily Express. Why, asked Edgar, had not someone the sense to tell the Queen that her dress ("It was fussy with that great big bow") was wrong for TV? Why was her makeup...
January. Sir Edmund Hillary will deny ASPCA charges that he used penguins to pull his sled when he reached the South Pole. Sir Edmund will say, "The birds are not only bow-legged, but paunchy. The charge is ridiculous." Back in Cambridge, Dean Watson will be fired for having purchased 3,000 IBM machines without authorization. The ex-Dean will declare, "Machines are lots of fun. Lots." Dean Bundy will reply, "Mr. Watson knew quite well that there is no need for 3,000 IBM machines. I suffice...
...flight at Kitty Hawk, the National Aeronautic Association honored one of the airplane's best friends: Missouri's Democratic Senator Stuart Symington, first (1947-50) Secretary of the U.S. Air Force. For his "distinguished career of public service in the field of aviation," Stu Symington took a bow and got the annual Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy...
...sales for the first two months of the 1958 models are running at an annual rate of only 5,800,000, but he still had hopes for a 6,000,000 year. The reason U.S. auto sales have leveled off for the past few years, said Romney-with a bow to his hot-selling little Rambler-is that the automobile industry as a whole has ignored "fundamental changes occurring in automobile use and demand," i.e., the increased popularity of smaller, more compact cars...