Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well lit splendor of a shop. He was in Dunhill's and he was to buy a pipe--a straight grained pipe for all the world to see. He looked about him. In a far corner was an English gentleman in a Burberry, whose reverent hands stroked a pipe bowl that shone like well dressed leather. Here were three others helping a fourth decide between a crook necked and a straight stemmed. And there alone was one in a suit of tweed who gazed in silence at a loaded case lost in rapture and musing upon the greatness...
Life is just a bowl of cherries...
...Inside the large plum-carpeted room, Tammany Legislators from New York City sat in glum silence. Behind a great table, in the capacity of New York's Chief Magistrate, sat crippled, smiling Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before him stood a great barrel of a man with a soup-bowl haircut and cutaway, who looked like a slightly modernized political cartoon by the late Thomas Nast. He was Thomas M. ("Big Tom") Farley...
...fraternity is about the best breeding ground in the world for politicians. Take the Record, or even the Lit, the football managership, the Laundry, the Wood Agency, or even the News for future captains of industry. And as for bond salesman-why do you think they built the Yale Bowl...
...appeared to have just one tooth in his upper jaw. We noticed that Bapuji . . . would take from a bowl an artificial set of teeth to manage the scientific mastication of his breakfast. If he were to retain them during the day he would look younger and better than he really does. ... So we notice that he left his artificial dentistry for its strictly scientific use at the next meal, and went on his way a smiling, toothless old man." Can TIME'S correspondent arrange to count St. Gandhi's teeth (or tooth) and settle this...