Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from Aug. 14 to Nov. 22, when Johnson started back to England. Johnson's celebrated "bow-wow-way," as Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary, appeared conspicuously in almost every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder...
...Cambridgeshire marshes and mud flats in the true colors and moods of their flighting hours, and with an excitement about their movements kept properly objective by the artist. In his stories about stalking his game, often in a punt with a large shotgun fixed onto the bow, and often shooting by moonlight, Wildfowler Scott will puzzle gunners in the U. S. where such practices are barred and only his "shoulder gun," in daylight, is legal. But U. S. readers will not long question the rightful membership of Peter Scott in best shooting circles when they read: "There is a peculiar...
Investigation shows that this city has an interesting variety of "Thou Shalt Not's." You can't shoot a bow and arrow without a permit; and for every use of indecent language there's a fine. There will also be no bell-ringing except during prescribed hours...
This year, the beginning of a fourth century for Harvard and an eighth decade for the "Advocate," looks rather bright from the weather work quarters on Bow Street, Advocate House. Subscriptions, articles, series, and some rather weak verse are filling up, and it would seem that haughty Mother Advocate has definitely recovered from her tussle with the Cambridge vice squad over some certain salacity last fall...
...Brien has claimed the peerage of Thomond since 1774, the title had be come extinct. Last week, though in London representatives of the British Crown denied resurrecting the title, Oilman O'Brien proudly exhibited elaborately stamped documents which, he announced, entitled him and his wife to make their bow before King Edward VIII at his Coronation next...