Search Details

Word: bowling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Spiteful gossip writers for Berlin Socialist dailies called the wedding presents "cheap." They also seemed annoyed because President von Hindenburg had contributed to the general atmosphere of simplicity by sending as his wedding gift a pair of white porcelain candlesticks with a white fruit bowl to match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: No Light Thing | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Samuel Jr. arrived in London on the crack Golden Arrow, disguised himself by taking off his spectacles, hurried to the Park Lane Hotel. "I feel like a carp taken from a muddy river and put in a goldfish bowl, under a spotlight," he told newshawks. "I have lost a fortune and now I have only a salary. I am on vacation and my boss, James Simpson, expects me back in November." In Chicago it was revealed that Samuel Jr.'s salary is $100,000 a year -$25,000 each from four Insull utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Insulliana | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...color, of all the good nature, of all, the expectant enthusiasm. It will be excellent to watch The Dartmouth take the CRIMSON in its annual touch classic this afternoon, after gathering for instructions around the cone of the extinct volcano which serves the CRIMSON as a skoal bowl, and which never seems extinct...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vox Clamantis in Deserto | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

...confused with Clara Zetkin, the withered, tottering "Mother of German Communism." is Zara Witkin of Los Angeles, the smooth, upstanding designer of the Hollywood Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Balkhazhstrov Conserved | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

...third. So was the fourth. It has been a long time since prize fight addicts have seen a real fight for their money. Yelping with excitement, the crowd (estimated 50,000) surged down the shallow rim of the bowl, and against the bleats of remonstrating policemen, scrambled into the half empty $11 ringside seats. Schmeling fought timidly through the rest of the round like a man reluctantly chastising a smaller brother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: As Advertised | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Previous | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | Next