Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
Grave Repercussions. This was big news far beyond Britain. In Europe, seething with social unrest and social politics, it might have grave repercussions. If Britain goes far left, it might, as, Winston Churchill had warned, bowl over Europe's precarious political balances "like nine pins" and precipitate the Continent into new unrest...
...three, the Iliad seemed to have the most immediate influence on TIME writing. Homer's "wine-dark sea" and "far-darting Apollo" were the parents of "jampacked bowl," "spade-bearded anthropologist" and many another space-saving phrase in TIME...
...theme of Frogner Park is nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite...
From his cell, he tried to patent a method of catching fish by sucking them through seawater pumps directly into a ship, where they would be refrigerated by liquid air. His lawyer often found him standing before a window, holding up to the sun light a bowl of water containing a number of complicated thermometers. He would not say what these experiments were...