Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean Franklin felt that something should be done about it. One group of Boston alumnae was organized to provide free luncheon books to a small number of girls. Another paid $25 weekly for free extras in the cafeterias. And anyone who wished to could help further to endow a bowl of oiled beets or red apples, simply by buying a $5 vitamin ticket...
...Frau Richard Strauss to write a ballet scenario. Herr Richard lathered it with music prodigiously orchestrated, conducted it at the Vienna Staatsoper to celebrate his 60th birthday. In the ballet, pralines, marzipans and gingerbread men dance in a pastry-shop kitchen. Whipped-cream ballerinas waltz out of a giant bowl. An over-stuffed little boy has a nightmare which serves to bring chocolate creams and knall-bonbons on the stage, more pralines, more schlagobers...
With Hauptmann Goring at the gavel, the Deputies proceeded to elect their three Vice-Speakers, were told that Socialist Paul Loebe and People's Partyman Otto Hugo had tied for the third Vice-Speakership. To break this tie the two men drew lots from a bowl. Just at that moment the official tellers announced that a recount showed there had been no tie, awarded the third Vice-Speakership to astonished Dr. Loebe who had lost the draw...
...gentle readers, across the shimmering floor, through the French doors, you may see the Vagabond by the punch bowl, and now again, O greater Audience, look up from your coffee and rolls, and there he is, ordering his own coffee and rolls. Look well, ye, for now he is more easily seen than he will be soon again...
...bowl must be won three times for permanent possession, and is an object of considerable interest in the squash world every year...