Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bushy-maned President John Llewellyn Lewis made a graceful bow to the "partnership" between Labor, Capital and Government. He told his men that, although he would ask for a 30-hour week (coal code maximum: 40 hr.) and higher pay when new labor contracts are discussed with bituminous operators in Washington Feb. 12, the miners would be "in a mood of cooperation, conciliation and constructive contribution...
...Third Concerto for Two Violins, Beethoven's Allegretto for Piano, Violin and 'Cello, Mozart's G Major Quartet. He did not want any "funny business" in the papers, to have it said that his head wagged this way and that, that he flourished his bow or held it pinched. The newshawks, in evening dress for the occasion, agreed to behave. But afterward they reported that Einstein is a capable fiddler, that he became so absorbed in the music that with a far-away look he was still plucking at the strings when the performance was all over...
When neighboring King Gustaf V receives in Stockholm no precedence is given to the Soviet Minister, beauteous Alexandra Kollantay. Quite as though she were a man, Comrade Kollantay stands back until diplomats who have been longer at Stockholm than she bow before Sweden's Gustaf. Not only has Comrade Kollantay never claimed the right of "ladies first," but like other Old Bolsheviks she considers ''lady" a repulsive epithet. Very much a lady is the first woman ever appointed a U. S. Minister. Last week in Copenhagen the rule that senior diplomats always take precedence was waived...
...white paper, carried with pomp by an Imperial Messenger into the infant's presence. Same day Japan's Crown Prince will get his first bath, a rite of such antiquity that all its meanings are no longer known. While the babe is washed attendants will twang on bow strings as sages seated behind a screen read in loud and awful tones eloquent passages from ancient books...
Honky tonks have been treated so exhaustively in the cinema since The Barker that the first squeak of a calliope now sounds like a warning signal of boredom to come. Even a blatant performance by Actress Bow, in the manner of a juvenile Mae West, and an ending which shows her wriggling in the midway of a Century of Progress, fail to prevent Hoopla from seeming obsolete...