Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Varsity; Stroke, Sam Drury; No. 7, Eliel: No. 6, Drysdale; No. 5, Barrows; No. 4, Atherton; No. 3, Simmons; No. 2, Whipple; Stroke, Bow, Clark; Cox, Litchfield...
...exhibitors an excuse for exhibiting morally bad pictures. All reform agencies in the cinema have objected to block booking; none has ever made any headway in preventing it from becoming standard practice in the industry. Even such a product of the New Deal as the Cinema Code had to bow to block booking-a fact which caused Dr. Lowell to refuse a seat on the Code Authority (TIME, Jan. 1). Remarked cynical Terry Ramsaye in his Motion Picture Herald: "With a great flourish to publicity in the lay press it is announced that Mrs. August Belmont . . . is the new president...
...briefest of little bows, his left hand on his hip, his baton tapping smartly on the nearest violin stand and the audience was still, ready for another Toscanini miracle. For a second he closed his eyes. Then his baton cut sharply into the air. First passage was for the violins. The Maestro's stick seemed suddenly to become a violin bow playing tenderly across imaginary strings. His left hand molded phrases, shot up like a policeman's warning to keep the pianissimos. Most conductors make an elaborate show of signaling to the different players, whipping up climaxes. Toscanini...
...After the Derby of 1931, when more stories about lottery winners burgeoned in the newspapers. Republican Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown pointed a monitory finger at a Federal statute which makes lottery information unmailable, under penalty of $1,000 fine and two years imprisonment. Press Associations, always quick to bow to Washington orders, promptly ceased handling lottery news. In November, the New York Dally News defiantly printed the names of ticket holders in a lottery on the Manchester Handicap. Nervously the Times and Herald Tribune followed suit in editions which did not pass through the post office. For the next...
Latest member of the artistic La Farge family to make his literary bow is Christopher, in a 224-page poem which he modestly calls "an American novel in verse." A patriotic poem, Hoxsie Sells His Acres sings not of arms and men but of Rhode Island land-lovers. A nostalgic tribute to a land that has seen its best days, it has fluency and charm, tells its low-keyed story with sentimental conviction. Walter Hoxsie's farm on the Rhode Island shore had been in his family for generations. He liked his life there, especially when his cousin Sarah...