Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy as a waterbug which has just swum around a bowl of soup, Dr. Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva, frock-coated overlord of Zion City, Ill., last week landed in Manhattan after a cruise around the world. To him, of course, it had been a cruise around the edge of the world, the circumnavigation of a soup-plate whose centre is the North Pole...
...obviously Jewish name would be a handicap. Anti-Semitic feeling did drive him out of Munich once but it could not dim his reputation as a great interpreter of Haydn, Mozart and the French composers. He has since had big successes all over Europe, in London, at the Hollywood Bowl in 1929, after his Manhattan experience had taught him something of the U. S. public...
...program will appear such numbers as the "Washington Post March" by the Banjo Club, "Landlord Fill the Flowing Bowl" by the Vocal Club, Shubert's "March Militaire" by the Mandolin Club, popular selections by the Gold Coast Orchestra and as a specialty number, "Legerdemain" by W. S. Warner...
When the hangman came to guess her weight, Frau Kardos screamed hysterically. But later she ate a large bowl of steaming goulash, passed the night on her knees praying. Next morning, before being led out to die, she drained several glasses of brandy rapidly, alternately wept and prayed until she mounted the scaffold...
...thin rain hung its veils over 70,000 people assembled in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Year's Day for the supreme intersectional football game of the season - the "Tournament of Roses." Washington State, Pacific Coast champions, had on new red silk jerseys, red pants, red shoes, red helmets. Less flashily arrayed but more dangerously colored by its reputation as the greatest team that ever came from the South, Alabama's Crimson Tide was playing for the last time under supervision of Coach Wallace Wade.* Betters were favoring Alabama principally because the climate of Pasadena...