Word: bows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ships. For the first time in 12 years all cross channel ships and airplanes had to suspend service for some days. When the French channel steamer Engadine set out imprudently from Boulogne, towering seas swept off a hatch, flooded her bow, and burst through a bulkhead into the women's firstclass saloon. By supreme good fortune no one was drowned within the ship and she managed to limp into Folkstone harbor without foundering...
...calls during the play. The vanity of an actor is essential but if he has proper pride he will not stand for interruptions. He labors for an hour to create the impression that Smith and Brown are mortal enemies and then, after the first act, they come out and bow side by side, smiling happily...
...week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear him play a new concerto which had disturbed and pleased the International Festival for Contemporary Music last June in Frankfurt. But when Conductor Willem Mengelberg looked over the score, he pronounced it too difficult...
...Block Island two years ago (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925) -hurried to Provincetown from the New London, Newport, and Brooklyn Navy Yards. A diver groped his way down to the hulk and tapped with his hammer. Answering taps came from the torpedo room in the submarine's bow. Six men were still alive there. Their air was getting bad. Please hurry! Powerful compressors on tenders at the surface started pumping air into the S-4's forward ballast tanks. Perhaps she could be upended and her survivors cut free. But unless fresh air could be passed into the torpedo...
...Your Man, like most of Clara Bow's productions, is constructed almost entirely upon the theme of her celebrated sex-appeal. In this one she meets a standardized, youthful, French aristocrat on the point of marrying a girl he does not love because he has been engaged to her practically since birth. Clara Bow, in the part of his true inamorata, finds ingenious and not unentertaining devices which permit this tragic possibility to be avoided. Through these devices the "It" motif, which sounded loudly through It and Hula, runs like the sound of ten trombones and a fiddle...