Word: bowered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motors warmed, the 20 planes were lined up in two rows for the start of the greatest air race in aviation history. Chattering in little groups were flyers, mechanics, officials, men in dungarees, women in evening dress from London. At 6:30 a. m. Sir Alfred Bower, Acting Lord Mayor of London, gave the starting signal...
...summary: HARVARD ANDOVER Robey, g. g., Cross Sargent, r.f.b. l.f.b., Howard Powell, l.f.b. r.f.b., Bower Alexandre, Rainsford, von Stade, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bagg Robie, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hazeltine White, l.h.b. r.h.b., Rosenfeld, Clifford Earle, r.o.f. l.o.f., Stott, Eames Davis, Grandin, r.i.f. l.i.f., Chakrabandu Simpson, Smith, c. c., Mendel Sleeper, l.i.f. r.i.f., Ross Rowley, Tylor, l.o.f. r.o.f., Thompson...
...same year. In Chicago she succeeded Mrs. Potter Palmer as social arbiter, gave vast and lavish parties, backed the Chicago opera for years before Insull. She used to buy dresses six at a time, all the same model. She thought nothing of spending $25,000 for roses to bower her ballroom. Suffering from a nervous disorder in 1912, she met Psychiatrist Carl Jung in Manhattan, followed him with her family to Zurich where she lived as his pupil and assistant for eight years. Returning to Chicago in 1921, she picked up a pudgy little Swiss architect, Edwin D. Krenn, brought...
...Manhattan Promoters James Victor Worth and William Bower were trying to develop a new perfume base, using a valerianate instead of musk. Their chemist was Dr. Samuel Molanr, onetime professor in Austria's University of Graz. Compounding certain chemicals (now a trade secret) he one day discovered to his amazement that the valerianate had been transformed, its odor completely destroyed. Contrary to known chemical laws, the reaction worked again & again. Promoters Worth & Bower knew about the clothing industry's troubles, were quick to see their discovery's commercial value...
Bolting the rest of his breakfast Secretary Stimson sped to the White House whither President Hoover hastily summoned his other bower, Secretary of the Treasury Mills. Out came the British note and for two hours the three hunched over the President's desk pondering what Britain's whole Cabinet had painstakingly written at Downing Street earlier in the week...