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Word: bowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...African Gander," by Simeon Pickering, depicts rather startlingly, for the first time, a well-known young woman reclining on a sofa with no clothes on at all. A sad gander meditates her buxom figure while the young married woman herself contemplates a bowl of "peaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Freedom, Drunkenness | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...play at Ohio State in 1928. In fact, such a game would draw the biggest crowd that ever saw a Princeton team play, for the Ohio State stadium is larger by 80,000 seats than the Princeton and Harvard stadiums and larger by 5,000 than the Yale bowl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 3/8/1927 | See Source »

Soon the Chief was hopping and strutting gleefully with a silver-headed cane from Bond Street, presented by the Duke and Duchess. Grateful, he prepared for them a bowl of the sacred nectar kava, "by drinking which the Chief is brought near and like unto his people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiji Fest | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...first I was treated as a captive and a slave.] One day a young French officer-he was not more than 22-was captured. . . . He was buried alive up to the neck. The women brought a great bowl of thick brown honey and poured it over his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Caid El-Hadj | 2/21/1927 | See Source »

...Vocal Club received much praise for its rendition of its numbers of the Gay Nineties, "Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl" and "Old King Wenceslas." The Mandolin Club scored with is song of the "The Volga Boatmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS SCORE TOUR DE FORCE | 1/4/1927 | See Source »

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