Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fishbowl. Up to last week the Council had always sat in a small, glass enclosed room, scurrilously famed as "The Goldfish Bowl." Originally the "bowl" was the conservatory of an old hotel, which hotel is now the musty Secretariat of the League of Nations. During the Summer the old "Fishbowl" was demolished and a new once, twice as large, built at a cost...
...Diplomatic Gold Fish, still glass enclosed, now sit upon a dais, exposed to the pitiless peering of visitors and correspondents comfortably seated throughout the "bowl...
William Tatem Tilden II can beat Fritz Mercur, onetime Longwood Bowl champion. So, too, can Helen Wills, as she did in an exhibition match last week. Yet Mercur rose to no great heights last week in the Eastern Turf championship at the Westchester-Biltmore Country Club to trounce Tilden in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Less alarming, but important, significant, was the straight-set victory (6-4, 7-5) of Berkeley Bell, of the University of Texas, over Francis T. Hunter, perennial doubles partner and intimate of Tilden...
Disgusting, however, was the food they were obliged to eat when their civilized provender gave out. Edible berries abounded, but often resembled poisonous kinds. They gingerly tried armadillo meat, scooping the flesh from the bowl-like shells. It had a faint herby taste. In extremity they killed small monkeys, skinned them, put the little, human-like heads out of nauseating sight, gutted and boiled the creatures. Monkey meat they found pallid, tasteless. Spices thrown into the soup pots made the meat palatable...
Married. Percy Aldridge Grainger, famed musical virtuoso; to Viola Strom, Swedish poet, painter; in the Hollywood (Calif.) Bowl, in the presence of 22,000 people who had just heard the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra play "To a Nordic Princess," composed for the occasion and directed by Bridegroom Grainger...