Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week what threatened to be the most baffling political choice for Nebraska voters was the candidacies of George W. Norris and George W. Norris for the Senatorial nomination. One Norris is the oldtime insurgent U. S. Senator. The other is a clerk in a chain grocery store at Broken Bow. Nebraska law required nominating petitions to be filed on or before July 3. Grocer Norris' petition arrived July 5. Secretary of State Marsh accepted it on the ground that it was in the mails on July...
...last month he appeared before a Senate Committee investigating that Administration (see p. 34), Senators grieved to see him decrepit. They remembered him as Mark Sullivan in Our Times describes him: "His large head capping the pedestal of broad shoulders and immense chest, his salient nose shaped like the bow of an icebreaker, and his piercing eyes...
Outside Congress: he lives at No. 1661 Crescent Place, N. W. (Washington), has a summer home in Glacier National Park. When in Washington he is a popular dinner-guest, golf part ner. His clubs: the Montana at Helena, the Silver Bow at Butte, the Chevy Chase at Washington...
...Cornell was a quarter of a length out and Syracuse had passed California. Then, "Open water." yelled the Cornell crowd. Captain Shoemaker and Coach Jim Wray, following their men in the Cornell launch, saw a slowly widening space appear between the Cornell stern and M. I. T.'s bow. Washington and the Navy were still in striking distance, but at the railroad bridge they were out of it and M. I. T. was trying wildly and uselessly to hold off Syracuse. Cornell was so far ahead now that the speed boats following behind moved up and let their wash...
...past Scituate, Mass., she quickened her pace. Just at dusk her 76 passengers, including Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment the two craft locked, then the Pinthis sank with her crew of 18. The Fairfax was doused in flame...