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Word: bows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developments, neatly compacted, gain force from high-paced direction, employment of frequent opportunities for smart photography. Good shots: a gunfight along the seamy rails and ladders of the engine room; a corridor sign flashing "SILENCE" outside the room in which the banker has been shot; the Transatlantic's bow splitting a wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 10, 1931 | 8/10/1931 | See Source »

...Halifax, N. S. the rum-running Josephine K., whose captain was killed by U. S. gunfire last winter off New York, arrived with her bow and stern staved in and a yarn of deliberately ramming a U. S. Coast Guard vessel in revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Week | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...ordered his highway workers to clear away the free bridge's barricades and plow up all approaches to the toll bridge. Incensed, Governor Sterling dispatched his Rangers to the Texas bridge head, curtly informed Governor Murray: "You have exceeded your jurisdiction beyond all reason." Replied Governor Murray: "I bow to your authority over the State of Texas. You could probably muster more manpower than I could in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Red River War | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...Winnipeg, Man., Chief Buffalo Bow of the Northern Saskatchewan Indians was distressed by the prolonged drought. He mustered his braves, organized a rain dance to invoke the Great Spirit. Thereupon it rained for two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Answer | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized era. Her second husband, Millionaire Philip Plant, caused her to desert a promising cinema and stage career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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