Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pianist was finally found and the performance of Impressions of Buenos Aires reached its dismal end, with seven minutes of radio time still to fill. Iturbi rejected Ringwall's suggestion that he conduct an encore, stalked off stage, returned only to take a bow when the orchestra applauded him back...
Lucille Langhanke was born in Quincy, Ill. 30 years ago. When she grew up pretty, her parents started to train her for the films. Running second to Clara Bow in a beauty contest, Lucille went West. In 1925 Douglas Fairbanks chose her for leading lady in Don Q. Thereafter, as Mary Astor, she enjoyed a profitable, if not sensational, cinema career. In 1930 Miss Astor's first husband, Director Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane smash. Recovering from this shock, Miss Astor was attended by Dr. Thorpe, a dressy Hollywood gynecologist, whom she married within a year...
...Bow Street Police Court Herbalist McMahon kept repeating dully that he never meant to shoot, that his gesture was merely a "protest." On the blotter he was charged with "unlawfully having in his possession a loaded Chicago Arms Co. revolver with intent to endanger life and property...
...Association Conventionites, Maryland's roly-poly Governor Henry Whinna Nice was in the forward saloon with everyone else about 10 p. m. cheering a rowdy chorus-girl show, when there came four blasts of the ship's whistle. Instant later, passengers were knocked sprawling as the steel bow of the freighter Golden Harvest chopped ten feet into the State of Virginia's side a few yards aft of the merrymakers. No one was seriously hurt. Taken off four and a half hours later by a ferryboat, Governor Nice telegraphed his wife: "Don't wait...
...modern trailer is no longer an ugly wooden box. Anywhere from 14 to 30 feet long, it is a streamlined lozenge of light metal with curtained windows, chromium fittings, a simple swivel joint at the bow where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum...