Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they thought they had only to mass a war fleet in the Mediterranean and Premier Mussolini would take off his hat and bow in submission. "Instead he reared up like a thorough bred horse and sent his soldiers into Africa. Viva Il Duce!" Next morning Achille Starace's men captured Gondar, and within three days the first Italian troops reached the shores of Lake Tana. In Rome the Rearing Horse was tractable...
...miss J. Duncan Spaeth's genial boasting about the talents of his halfbrother, "Tune Detective" Sigmund Spaeth, the professional abilities of his wife. Painter Marie Haughton Spaeth, the age of his Princeton house, built during the French & Indian Wars. Oarsmen will miss his stout figure perched in the bow of a motorboat, whizzing up & down Lake Carnegie at crew practice...
With three weeks and a day of outdoor rowing behind them the Varsity crew has settled down into the long, early-season grind. The first race is against Princeton and M.I.T. on May 2. Whiteside had not made any changes in the stern two oars nor in the bow pair but the waist four seems to be only moderately satisfactory if the minor but repeated changes he has made here are indicative of relatively greater weakness...
...boat as it has rowed since vacation is: stroke, Chace; 7, Captain Ray Clark; 6, John Clark; 5, Eliel; 4, Erickson; 3, Wolcott; 2, Beane; bow, Austin; and cox, Bennett...
Following the first heavyweight out-fit, the second crew lined up with Hinde at stroke, Hovey 7, Burr 6, Covel 5, T. Talbot 4, Scull 3, Skarsetet 2, Cary bow and Fox as coxswain. Lawrence, Beekman, Bechler, Coquillette, Epstein, Foote, Meyer and Derby make up the third boat...