Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts asked to be assured that the royal visit portended no entangling alliance. Courtly Senator Ashurst promised everyone that he would bow low as usual, said his head is always "unbloody but bowed...
When Dorothy Thompson was about ten her stepmother used to call her and her younger brother and sister into the parlor and make them bow and curtsey to visitors. One day Dorothy came in doing a cartwheel, displaying her panties to six ladies of the Methodist Church. That habit has persisted and is one reason why mercurial Miss Thompson will never be the first woman President, although she and Eleanor Roosevelt are undoubtedly the most influential women...
...train pulled into Banff, in time for the King and Queen to see the sun set behind the great purple mountains. Half an hour after arriving at the Banff Springs Hotel, opened especially for the royal visit, they left their suite for a walk by the falls of the Bow River. One of the Royal Canadian Police stationed every 50 yards around the hotel began to trail them watchfully. The King halted and smiled. "Please don't follow us," he said, "we are quite all right...
Last week as Colonel Lawrence had hoped, the British Government did bow to expediency, belatedly fulfilled part of her Wartime pledges to the Arabs. The Government's new Palestine plan acknowledges the claims of Arab Nationalism by limiting Jewish immigration and planning the establishment in ten years of an independent Arab-controlled Palestine...
...three halts took place just outside British-owned Hong Kong waters. The British Peninsular & Oriental liner Ranpura was signaled to stop by a Japanese cruiser which fired two shots across her bow. Four officers and a party of marines boarded the ship, demanded to examine the ship's log. The captain refused, radioed Hong Kong for help. After loitering aboard ship for 20 minutes, the Japanese withdrew. The French freighter Aramis, whose skipper was not so tough, was not only halted by a destroyer but armed marines searched her. The captain of the German Hamburg-Amerika liner Sauerland, giant...