Word: bows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rice-Bassett '24 will receive petitions for additional class officer nominations up till 6 o'clock this evening at his room at 9 Bow Street. Each petition must be signed by 35 members of the Junior class...
Delegate William F. Dunne, blue-shirted Communist leader from the Silver Bow Labor Council of Butte, Mont., indicted associate of W. Z. Foster, was expelled from the Convention, without any Gomperian steamrolling, 27,838 votes to 130. Dunne was charged with destructive designs upon trade unionism, on the strength of a speech he made in Portland ridiculing the Convention and its leaders...
...author of The Blind Bow-Boy is a tall, slim, white-haired, slightly florid young man of middle age. I have often observed him, have corresponded with him, but have never consciously spoken to him. I should have a constant fear that he would ruin some pet illusion of mine by a vagrant flippancy?and that I should be tempted to attempt to knock him down where he stood. Yet from all accounts Carl Van Vechten is a charming fellow. He is fond of cats (as the world reading his books knows). He has lived much on the Continent...
...Vechten is a brilliant writer. Parts of Peter Whiffle, parts of The Blind Bow-Boy, more particularly certain portions of his essays exhibit rare qualities of humor and beauty. Yet his books lack body and form, even that body and form which the frothiest of literary efforts must have. When I think of Van Vechten and his work, I think immediately of an expert characterization of his own in describing the heroine, Campaspe, in The Blind Bow-Boy. " Her body," he writes, " is her chief mental pleasure...
...Crew C-Bow, R. K. Fox '26, 2, C. O'D Iselin '26, 3, C. F. Darlington '26, 4, H. M. Bohlem '25; 5, D. C. Gates '26; 6, Robert Winthrop '26; 7, G. D. Krumbhoar '26; Stroke, Elisha Canning, '26; Cox, W. E. Beer...