Word: bowness
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...earthy sense of humor, and the fresh background of Holland life and scenery that sometimes has the authenticity of a Rembrandt. Van der Lugt, a prolific writer still under 40 (more than 70 plays, six novels, many juveniles), writes like a man in a hurry. In his first U.S. bow, he very nearly throws away his characters and his story, but what is left is enough to keep the pages turning...
...find fault with Senator Cooper and his record. His trouble lies in the class of field he's running in. It's Correlation Cooper, a fine horse, up against Hasty Road Barkley, and that's too much horse. With a regretful bow to John Cooper, it would be wonderful to have Alben Barkley . . . back on the track...
...while playing a tournament in Switzerland, Drobny and his doubles part ner. Vladimir Czernik. refused to go home when the Czech government told them to bow out because a German and a Spaniard had entered. Life as a stateless tennis amateur was not easy. Drobny moved to Australia, then the U.S., always broke between matches. When a wealthy Egyptian tennis fan offered him a job and a chance to play all the tennis he wanted, Drobny became an Egyptian citizen, ultimately developed his own profitable export business...
...Bethlehem Steel's San Francisco shipyard, dungareed workmen bustled about under a towering new ship, greasing ways and loosening chocks. Then, as a whistle signaled, a bottle of California champagne was smashed against the be-flagged ship's bow, and the Pacific Far East Lines's S.S. Golden Bear slid smoothly into...
Reporter Russell was not impressed. "The Government appears to be helplessly drifting with the current of events," he wrote, "having neither bow nor stern, neither keel nor deck, neither rudder, compass, sails nor steam." In the seceding Southern states, where he was greeted as a friend and potential ally, Russell maintained strict impartially. On Morris Island, S.C., he was urged to drink to "something awful" for Lincoln and the North, but he sharply declined...