Word: bowls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Give Germans condemned to death the right to take their own lives as the Greeks gave Socrates a bowl of hemlock. In the modern Nazi State the procedure recommended last week is for the German jailor to enter the cell of the condemned and say, "Here is a pistol and a bottle of poison. Take your choice." According to the Ministry of Justice, "Criminals of the fouler sort should not, of course, receive this privilege. They should be decapitated, as at present. The theory of permitting a man to carry out his own sentence is the logical fulfillment...
...Philharmonic. In honor of Mozart, he opened his program with the D Major Symphony. Salzburg audiences this year have showered flowers on Mengelberg, applauded Felix Weingartner and Clemens Krauss, cheered themselves hoarse over Bruno Walter, but the roar they gave Toscanini sounded like nothing so much as a Yale Bowl demonstration. When he tried to direct the audience's enthusiasm to the orchestra, he discovered that the players to a man had put down their instruments, were standing and applauding him. To stop the ovation he had to disperse the orchestra, duck away to his dressing room...
...more outlandish than everything else in the mountain-walled bowl of sand between China, Russia and India was Dr. Khalid Sheldrake, Moslem medical missionary to Moslems who started life as the son of a British pickle manufacturer. Last winter several tribal chiefs from Chinese Turkistan, where every tribe hates and fears every other tribe, called on Dr. Sheldrake in his Peiping hotel and invited him to be their overlord. The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking...
...royal family could get to the coronation city of Khotan on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the troops of General Shen Shih-tsai, young Chinese provincial governor, swooped down on King Khalid with planes furnished by Soviet Russia. Last week a brief dispatch from the sand bowl disposed of the pickle maker's ambitious son: "Provincial troops overthrew the insurgent Moslem forces of Dr. Khalid Sheldrake. He was reported to have fled in defeat toward India, following the wholesale surrender of his troops...
...chocolate, harlequins which they produced from the pockets of their sleeveless sweaters. At meal stops they are handed knapsacks of food & drink to consume en route. The Tour de France is marked by few grisly spills such as punctuate the Madison Square Garden grinds. As a rule the riders bowl along in a good-humored cluster, sprint near the end of the run for the daily prize money. On the windy seacoasts they take turns riding on the windward side of the pack. One race was so swift and grim that after the finish a rider was reported to have...