Word: bowness
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...once again the dreadsome time arrives, when large her shadows loom upon the boards, obliterating that refined discretion that nooses up the purse the year around (of charity, the ghost alone remains). Ring the curtain down, before the fatuous seduction makes her bow; down...
...pretty old one, but it simply and effectively sums up the temperament of the belligerently aggressive Chinese: How courteous is the sweet Chinese; He always says, "Excuse it, please." He climbs into his neighbor's garden And smiles and says, "I beg your pardon." He bows and grins a friendly grin, And calls his hungry family, in; He grins and bows a friendly bow, "So solly, this is my garden...
...With a bow to the classical unities, the entire action of Virginia Woolf takes place in a faculty couple's living room and runs continuously from 2 a.m. until dawn on a Sunday. (Someone must already have dubbed the play Long Night's Journey Into Day.) And with a bow to intellectualism, Albee has subtitled the three acts "Fun and Games," "Walpurgisnacht," and "The Exorcism...
...principle, and one of his strongest principles is that every one of his 70,000 workers should feel free to join a union but that none of them should be compelled to do so. Four times in the last decade Lockheed has taken costly strikes rather than bow to the demands of the International Association of Machinists for a "union shop," i.e., compulsory union membership. Last week, still clinging to principle, the nation's largest defense contractor took yet another strike which, for 36 hours, tied up its operations from Cape Canaveral to Honolulu...
...Perry, the Gargoyle captain, is confident that the Yalies will have the honor of being the tenth consecutive team to bow to Harvard. The Elis feel that their skill as world bladder-ball champions will spill over into tiddlywinks, but Perry said that the visitors are "too inexperenced and too Yalish" to stand a chance...