Word: bows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Julian Fane, on the staff of the British Embassy, to Lady Rose.) "The Emperor and Empress both went through their parts admirably . . . On entering the Church, both fall on their knees and touch the floor with their foreheads, and afterwards move about to different quarters of the Church to bow before the images and kiss the holy relics?a maneuvre which they both executed with great grace. The ceremony of the Coronation itself is very pretty, the Emperor first putting the crown (which is enormous, and I should think priceless from the mass of jewels it contains...
...pictures of Lord and Lady Lascelles (Princess Mary), of the Duke and Duchess of York, of Lady Louise Mountbatten and her recent fiance, Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, and of King George and Cupid. Over each lady's heart appeared a money bag and from cupid's bow issued arrows piercing to each money bag. The story accompanying these pictures was written by Margery Rex (the name of any young lady whom Mr. Hearst may employ to write this type of story). The narrative told how Lady Louise Mountbatten had jilted the Crown Prince of Sweden...
...ardent oarsman in his youth; in 1887 he rowed bow in the Cambridge eight and in later years won the Grand and Steward's cups at Henley-on-Thames...
...make any prophecies as to 100,000-sellers for the Fall, it is sane enough perhaps to attempt to point the modest finger of discrimination at some few novels which seem worth recommending to the judicious reader, sight unseen. Imprimis, The Rover, by Conrad. And The Blind Bow-Boy which Carl Van Vechten, its author, describes as " a cartoon for a stained glass window," whatever that means. Jennifer Larne, a sedate extravaganza by Elinor Wylie. And the new Hergesheimer if it's the one we think it is. Meanwhile, the literary roulette-wheel spins...
From Cupid's bow...