Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herald Tribune: "She wore a brown coat with a mink collar which she held up around her face continuously, and a small brown hat, almost tricorne in shape, similar to her headdress in Peter Pan. . . . She walked gracefully to the stand, stood erect for a moment, then turned and bowed to Justice McNamee . . . another bow to the jury . . . she seated herself...
...deep, terrifying silence, a low rumble, then hissing. "If you have never heard yourself hissed you can have no notion of how physically painful it is. I can imagine that if one has committed an evil act, has been disloyal, has committed treason or a felony,-one should bow one's head to the storm. . . . But to have written a bad third act is not really so reprehensible!" Sacha Guitry was in despair, felt that the terrible sound had shriveled his heart, considered it unjust and offensive, but after it was over he felt that for the first time...
What about her real belief? Is that Presbyterian too? I think not-Presbyterians are not apists of the Papists! Nor do they bow down and worship any but the trinal God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost...
...against the broad interpretation of the Federal Government's postal and interstate commerce powers. When chunky, snub-nosed Tom Corcoran suggested that that implied the unconstitutionally of the Securities & Exchange Act, Mr. Davis declared: "Modesty reigned when that Act was drawn and passed and there was a bow at least to constitutional power. I find in this [Utility] Act not so much of a gesture." Earlier in the week SEC's new Chairman James McCauley ("Chink") Landis had invited representatives from all the major holding companies to Washington for what turned into almost a love feast...
After working on newspapers in St. Louis, Chicago, and Montreal, John B. Kennedy became an associate editor of Collier's magazine. He specialized in writing breezy interviews with stage and screen celebrities. Kennedy was a man of the world and he knew bow to keep out too much breathless adoration of the great...