Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unsuspecting world. Louisa learns to cook at a grand London house and attracts the attention of the Prince of Wales. Naturally, she must marry someone else immediately. "The prince would never seek to compromise a single lady," explains the royal equerry. Louisa rails at this "conspeyeracy" but bows to sovereign fate and marries Mr. Trotter, the butler (played by Donald Burton with just the right hint of smarminess). The prince sets them up in a London house designed for discreet visits. In quick succession, Victoria dies, the new King finds that he must bow to propriety and stop going...
...hours of day and night in a way. that Harvard professors, with casual attitudes to first names but rigid ones to office hours, would find quite intolerable. The same student who will don a tuxedo for formal dinner parties and acquiesce in the "sub-fusc" of 3-piece suit, bow-tie, white shirt and gown that Oxford students are required to wear for Finals, may be an ardent devotee of new-wave and disco music. Latin grace at formal dinner in an often centuries-old college hall will be followed by a drink in the bar with jukebox afterwards...
...bow marker on each shell indicates the position in which it started. A high-numbered shell passing a lower-numbered one is doing well, relatively speaking--it has picked up 10-15 seconds on the boat it passes...
...magnificently klutzy dope in The Lady Eve, the martinet in Fort Apache, the scruffy bandit leader in Once Upon the Time in the West. But, as he admits, the image that has sustained his career is of the man with strained conscience, like the reluctant hero of The Ox-Bow Incident or of 12 Angry Men. "I guess I go overboard to avoid taking credit for the image I have," says Fonda. "That way it's easier to live with myself. I don't feel I'm totally a man of integrity." He pauses thoughtfully...
...Casa Pacifica, which brought in about $100,000. Nixon reminisced about his memories of Orange County-the time he proposed to Pat at Dana Point and the days when he practiced law at La Habra. One of the most exuberant guests was John Wayne. Greeting the Missus with a bow and a kiss on the hand, the Duke said, "It's great to see Pat up and around and looking happy." As for her husband, the Duke enthused: "I was with the ex-President when he was a winner and a loser and a winner again...