Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...longer need the followers of the Green bow their heads in shame when the Harvard band marches onto the field with one member banging melodically on his lyre-shaped instrument. No longer can Yale vaunt its silver-toned hope in front of the Hanoverian stands as they bend their heads in shame...
Last week, Britain's sensation-reading public had something else to ponder besides Skipper Orsborne's memories artfully ghost-written in third-rate Kiplingese. Up in Bow Street Court stood Skipper "Dod" and his Brother Jim Orsborne to hear themselves indicted for stealing the Girl Pat. Trial begins next month in Old Bailey, promises to provide some Grade A nautical sensations. As the two accused sailors stepped out of the iron-grilled prisoners' dock, their lawyer, Christmas Humphreys, hinted: "Very serious allegations will have to be made against certain witnesses for the prosecution...
...Harvard, on the other hand, this tendency to bow to convention and unreasoning College opinion does not exist. Harvard feels that at least where indulgence of the 'play instinct' is concerned, the individual should be given ample opportunity, instruction, and facilities, but that he should make his own decisions as to the manner and extent to which he shall avail himself of them...
...advantage of that circumstance would react sharply against him. Day before the meeting it was announced that he would not seek to commit his conferees to any statement of policy. Sternly rejected was a proposal by Democratic Governor Clyde Herring of Iowa to trot the President out for a bow and a speech at the State Fair while Governor Landon lolled in his hotel. Instead, President Roosevelt ordered himself treated as non-politically as Governor Landon planned to be. Des Moines was stripped clean of campaign posters, signs and banners, which were replaced by flags and the simple greeting: "Welcome...
Mildly eccentric. Publisher Mitchell built his own home on Rhode Island Avenue by working on Sundays and in his spare time. He also constructed a small fiddle, played on it with a homemade bow. In addition, Mr. Mitchell got to be something of an amateur magician. Last week it was revealed that in future Publisher Mitchell will have all the time he wishes to devote to architecture, music and prestidigitation. Control of his magazine was shifted to an editorial group who planned to prod Pathfinder along a new journalistic trail...