Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After he signed the bill, President Hoover issued a public statement in which he took off his hat and made a low bow to Democrats as well as Republicans in Congress. Said he: "The fine spirit of patriotic nonpartisanship is, I know, appreciated by the whole country." Then he continued...
First boat--Bow, W. H. Bolcombe '33; 2, C. F. Hovey '32; 3, J. M. Erickson '32; 4, T. E. Armstrong '32; 5, Malcolm Bancroft '33; 6, W. B. Bacon '33; 7, J. VanV. Veeder '33; stroke, G. J. Cassedy '33; cox, H. H. Bissell...
Second boat--Bow, A. L. Nickerson '34; 2, F. J. Swayze '33; 3, W. L. Thompson '32; 4, R. H. Hallowell '33; 5, H. R. Packard '34; 5, Edward Yeomans '33; 7, J. G. Pierce '34; stroke, A. B. Parker...
...year ago the U. S. had four great and potent friends in Japan: Premier Hama-guchi, his successor Wakatsuki, able bow-&-arrow man, Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, the "Roosevelt of Japan," Finance Minister Junnosuke Inouye. Premier Hamaguchi was shot by a fanatic, died a lingering death. Premier Wakat-suki was driven out of office by Japanese militarists. Baron Shidehara dared oppose the invasion of Shanghai fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 15) and lay gravely ill at his home last week. And last week grey-templed, precise Junnosuke Inouye drove to a political rally in Tokyo...
...United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) was adapted by Sidney Howard from Zoe Akins' play. The Greeks Had a Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency...