Word: bowes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leather-paneled library, with its rosewood reading tables, has disappeared; in its place is a casino with gaming tables and one-armed bandits. The lounge area above the ballroom has become a shopping arcade. The best-located bar, which offered an intoxicating view over the ship's bow, has been turned into a kitchen. The forward observation platform, as well as the children's pool and play area and half the sheltered sports deck, have been taken over by 44 new prefabricated cabins...
This excellent biography was written by Virginia Woolf s nephew. The first sentence?"Virginia Woolf was a Miss Stephen"?sets the stance: just a slight bow to a heavy heritage. More important than Bell's style is his detachment, a quality that he certainly did not inherit. The Stephen family was part of the intellectual wing of Britain's upper middle class; Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a famous essayist and man of letters. Altogether, they were an excitable clan, idealistic, moralistic, painfully interdependent, swept along by unrecognized currents of passionate attraction that stopped just short...
...song plugger, Richman won stardom in the Broadway revues of the '20s and '30s, where he introduced standards like The Birth of the Blues and It All Depends on You. One of the highest paid stars of the era, and temporary fiancé to "It Girl" Clara Bow, Richman mastered the role of playboy smoothie with his penchant for showgirls, gambling and amateur aviation...
...Rimpa techniques and virtues: the sprightly drawing of flower and tendril; the formal presentation of each poet in a separate cartouche, as in a print. In his more realistic vein, as in a screen depicting Flowering Plants of Summer, Hoitsu possessed epigrammatic powers of observation: the fronds bend and bow under the summer rain, weaving a delicate lattice of green against the now tarnished silver ground...
...Archbishop of Philadelphia. Krol's father had come from Poland, and the cardinal won the crowd immediately by addressing them in fluent, if accented Polish. "I was never a prisoner in a concentration camp," he said. "I was never captured or exiled. I never suffered [your] scourges. I bow my head...