Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands at bow to trim ship...
...rescue before the Macon's stern touched water. Out of the dirigible's lockers had been yanked collapsible rubber life rafts which, when a valve is opened, inflate with carbon dioxide. These were tossed overside. After the crash, the crew slid down lines from the upturned bow into the sea, swam to the life rafts. Last to leave the control car was Commander Wiley and a young lieutenant who banged his head getting away. Badly stunned, he would probably have gone down if his captain had not seized him by the collar, towed him to a life raft...
Death is the final curtain to every man's performance, but sometimes it would be more decent, more dramatic to ring it down beforehand. The applause for Napoleon's last bow was at Waterloo, not on St. Helena. But the story of Napoleon's slow fattening for death, anti-climactic though it seems to his career, is a tragi-comedy in itself. Author "Wilson Wright" (William Reitzel) has made the most of it, re-stirring the teacup-tempest with an impartial spoon. From contemporary, controversial accounts of Napoleon's dying days he has pieced together...
...intensely Catholic Bavaria last week Staatsminister Hermann Esser decreed that during the carnival preceding Lent there shall be no Nazi saluting. Since handshaking has become "counterrevolutionary" in Nazidom, Herr Esser decreed that in carnival the proper greeting is to place one's right hand over the heart and bow...
...comes in to charge her with being as cold as a cold fish to her spouse. Because of her there is no heir to the Izmailov name. The puling Zinovi is called hurriedly to repair a break in a far-away milldam. Before he leaves Katerina has to bow low before him, swear to be faithful in his absence...