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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge. They know the whys and whats or everything, at least almost everything. I don't suppose many of them could tell me just why "Bozo" Snyder and "Sliding" Billy Watson are the leaders in that sacred and ancient art--burlesque, or why those two brethren of the buskin bow to Boston audiences at the same time. These whats and whys are not sufficiently esoteric. One can find them without entering all those mills which are not of God and grind even more slowly. Yet to some people and occasionally even to Gilbert Seldes these whats and whys are rather...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/21/1926 | See Source »

...Significance. Observers were inclined to smile at the bow to old school "secret diplomacy" which was made by the signatories in keeping their negotiations under cover until last week, although the signatures were affixed on Dec. 17. Diplomats widely averred that the treaty constitutes a standing bluff on the part of Soviet Russia and Turkey to the effect that neither will join that "union of an economic and political nature," the League of Nations. Diplomats opined that a further tang of bluff is given to the agreement by the fact that mutual neutrality instead of mutual aid is promised between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Russo-Turk Treaty | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Three times Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, propelled a bottle of champagne toward the monster's bow plates. Only at the last throw did she succeed in smashing the bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Dec. 28, 1925 | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...lousy momzer, I don't know why I ever married you. I'm going back to . . ." "Eddie Tilyou and his big-time melody boys will broadcast by special request 'Culoombia, the Chem of the . . ." "Quack, quack . . ." "Bryant 1840 . . ." "I guess you would like a girl to bow down and kiss your dirty foot whenever you treat her mean, but just lemme tell you . . ." "The shrine of each patriot's devotion . . .',' "Quack, quack . . ." "Not Bryant 1480! How many times should I say . . ." "If you ever lay your little finger on me again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Soundless | 12/28/1925 | See Source »

...restriction of parking within 20 feet on either side of eight entrances to the University Yard, and the limiting of parking time to 20 minutes during the day, on the south side of Massachusetts Avenue between Holyoke and Bow Streets, are provisions of a new amendment to the Traffic Ordinances, which will be voted on by the Cambridge City Council some time this month or in January. The amendment, which is now in the committee, was prepared by Mr. Russell Cazmay of 12 Plympton Street, Cambridge, on the request of the University officials...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW RULES WILL RESTRICT PARKING NEAR YARD GATES | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

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