Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected to establish as soon as possible a Development Company for North China: "I have assumed the Presidency of the South Manchuria Railway with the firm determination to become active on the Asiatic mainland. Japan is going to start operations in North China. The arrow has left the bow! Most Japanese do not yet understand the great importance of these operations, and this lack of understanding will beyond doubt cause a really serious national crisis. The progress of these operations will decide the destiny of the Japanese race and its rise or fall in the World. To carry through these...
...buys her $100 worth of roses. If his relations with both Lillian Russell (Binnie Barnes), who refused to marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold...
...waved his arms in a vigorous if unorthodox beat. He smartly stopped the musicians in time for each whistle and la-la-la-la. Then New York's music-loving Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, son of an Army bandmaster, brought the march to its crashing close, took a bow...
They had cleared Hongkong's headland when there appeared off their starboard bow none other than the crack cruiser of the loyal Nanking navy, the four-year-old, Japanese-made Ning Hai. Smaller, theoretically slower and equipped with only 5.5-in. guns, the Ning Hai is nevertheless in fighting trim and none of its guns is in pawn. It straightway opened fire on the Hai Shen and Hai Chi. The two old baggages heavily turned tail, labored back into Hongkong Harbor. Soon after, Ning Hai put in too, and its officers variously explained that the shots had been...
When the referee warned Baer for hitting low, he made a ludicrous bow. When the champion noticed an acquaintance at the ringside, he waved a friendly greeting. When Braddock reached his face with stinging but unimportant jabs, Baer sounded a jolly ''Ho, ho!" But solemn, plodding Jimmy Braddock took the first three rounds...