Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proclaimed Queen of the Lettuce Festival last week was snub-nosed Opal Sorenson, telephone company employe. Together with two giggling high-school girls, she put on bathing suit and rubber boots, climbed into a huge wooden bowl. From two nearby trucks two pretty girls chucked tons of lettuce into an ensilage cutter. Shredded to bits, it was then blown into the bowl. Queen Sorenson added 100 gallons of ready-mixed mayonnaise. Wading in, the three girls stirred, churned, whipped, mashed. Dripping from head to foot with lettuce & mayonnaise, they pitchforked it out to eager Kentians, for whom there...
First mass action of some 10,000 graduate nurses, assembled last week in Los Angeles for concurrent conventions of three national nurses' associations, was to be blessed by a Protestant Episcopal bishop in the Hollywood Bowl. They next heard a "vested chorus" of Los Angeles nurses, who had practiced for months, gently sing Green Cathedral. Cinemactress Kay Francis who plays Florence Nightingale, nurses' special saint, in The White Angel (see p. 49), was put on exhibition, along with her director of this latest Warner Bros, cinematic biography. Handsome, informed Susan Catherine Francis of Philadelphia, president of the American...
...Hollywood, Cinema Director Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke (Thin Man, Naughty Marietta) went bowling for the first time, forgot to let go of the bowl. Towed like the tail of a comet half way down the alley, he rose with a sheepish face, a sprained...
Third Gun. Herbert Hoover, still the Party's titular leader and now, after his public renunciation of Presidential ambitions (TIME, May 25), more popular than at any time since 1928, was welcomed at the Cleveland station by a cheering mob. He was kept in a political goldfish bowl until the hour of his speech. To prevent jealousy, forestall rumors of intrigue, no candidate or candidate's henchman was allowed to see him alone. In his rooms at the Hotel Cleveland he stood all day publicly beaming, greeting and pumping hands. Senator Vandenberg saw the ex-President...
...banker, Robert L. Thornton. General manager of the Exposition is a onetime Dallas real estate man, William A. Webb. To start with they had the old State Fair grounds plus some 28 acres of condemned residential property, 200 acres in all. The old Fair Park stadium became the "Cotton Bowl," and the job of being bold enough to please the hearts of Texas' heroes, and to attract a profitable gate, began...