Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nice, the U. S. consul asked French police to protect Gibson Fahnestock Jr., rich, U. S. .socialite on whose yacht Shenandoah III several members of the Chinese crew had started a fight. Shenandoah III is elaborately fitted out with Oriental antiques, has a great staring eye painted on her bow. Mr. & Mrs. Fahnestock and four children are world-cruising on it. Once before, at Singapore last December, the Chinese crew mutinied, knocked down the captain and Owner Fahnestock...
About to lose his land near Bradenton, Fla. in default of back taxes, George O. Lea, State Legislator, deeded it to Mahatma Gandhi, President Hoover, William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, Will Rogers, Clara Bow...
...kissed hands'" and received the small leather cases containing their seals of office from George V. There was no actual osculation. In spite of the fact that all of these gentlemen had been through this ceremony before, they were warned by a whispering usher in knee breeches merely to bow over the royal fingers...
Another and startling record was set by Homer Prouty, formidable heavy-bow expert from Portland, Ore. An arrow loosed by Archer Prouty went 436 yd., 2 ft., 8 in., 12 yd. better than last year's world's record, but 30 yd. short of a mark he set in a recent Pacific Coast tournament. National Archery Association championships are held by turns in the East, Far West and Middle West. Next year's tournament will be at Seattle...
Jeremiah K. Donovan is a smallish man who brushes up his hair into an impressive pompadour and who wears ice-cream suits and gay bow ties in the summertime. He works as a clerk in a tiny office in Lawyers Title & Guaranty Co., goes home every night to a furnished room in Brooklyn. When newshawks swooped down on him last week they found him unperturbed by his bankruptcy, and quite sane. It was a real bankruptcy, and his assets were only $100, and his liabilities were over $44,000,000-and yet his creditors would lose considerably less than...