Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which a new President is being distilled. Drunk with the fumes of politics, she has taken strange men into her house, who are not of her country (two contributors are not undergraduates). They have enslaved her own children, and torn her from the shrine of Polyhymnia, and made her bow down and worship before the heathen image of the Happy Warrior...
...President Martin polished things off with a bow to his predecessor and the news that the Association's finances were in the healthiest condition ever...
...going to bow our heads after the election; bow in shame that the intelligent, patriotic people of this State did not have the sense or the courage to avert this disgrace? Shall Kansans be greeted by a gibing baaa, the cry of the billy goat, when they walk the streets of other States...
...officiated at Candidate Whitney's political baptism. The first pitfall into which the candidate tumbled was admitting that he voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928. Son of the late sportsman Harry Payne Whitney, grandson of Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney is 33. He pulled bow oar on Yale's varsity crew, was sued for breach of promise by a dancer after graduation. Fie inherited over one-quarter of his father's $77,000,000 estate. He chairmans the boards of Pan American Airways and Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. He has two children by his first...
...whom he taught singing, flute, guitar. He sang evenings in the chorus of a second-class theatre, ate his meals of dry bread and raisins at the base of Henri IV's statue-all so that he could study at the Conservatoire. Conservatoire students were supposed to bow down to the Academicians but in spite of his inexperience, Berlioz developed theories of his own. He wrote scores which called for an incredible number of players. He combined instruments in ways that had never been done before. He even endorsed the mongrel saxophone which the instrument-maker, Adolphe...