Word: bower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Elizabeth was trying desperately to decide on a future bower (Windlesham Moor in Surrey was still the odds-on bet), and the gifts were piling up. at St. James's Palace. Among them...
...chair. Sometimes Hansard gets things wrong, but it's official, even so, and its bound volumes can be quoted in a court of law. Hansard never identifies a man's party, only his district: he is supposedly representing his entire constituency. When Emanuel Shinwell slapped Commander Bower in 1938 for saying "go back to Poland," Hansard reported it this way: "At this juncture the Honorable Member for Seaham crossed the floor of the House and struck the Honorable and Gallant Member for Cleveland a blow on the face...
Minutes later, the girl was talking to the desk sergeant in the Palisades Park jail. Name: Susan Bower; age: 20; home: Bozeman, Mont.; possessions: $14; last address: Bangor, Me. (where she had been digging potatoes); present occupation: hitchhiker; destination: Florida...
Last week, 34 days after she flagged the wrong driver, Bergen County admitted that Susan Bower had a right to keep her mouth shut. Turning down all offers, "Susan" put on her dungarees, pocketed her $14, and set out for Manhattan. Later, she said, she would hitchhike to Florida...
Jinnah and Nehru walked together for five minutes through a bower of rambler roses and foxglove. Hopes rose. When a photographer suggested that they shake hands, neither made a move. Hopes fell. Over the negotiations brooded the spirit of Mohandas Gandhi, installed in a nearby lodge. "To succumb to pessimism," he said, "is like dying before one's appointed death...