Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Total receipts were approximately seven million francs ($461,720)," said M. Cangardel. Subtracting from this the $250,000 operating cost would leave an operating profit for the maiden voyage of $211,720, but some sort of bow had to be made to payment of fixed charges, depreciation and insurance. Not explaining precisely how he figured these, M. Cangardel said roundly, "Normandie made a profit on her maiden voyage of one million francs...
...reward for meritorious service has gone to an incompetent sycophant. A highly improbable transoceanic telephone call, from the president of the company in New York to Stephen's superior in Shanghai, sets things right at the last minute but Director Mervyn LeRoy contrives to make this unnecessary bow to precedent as cynical as possible. Good shot: Stephen Chase and the girl he meets in Shanghai eating the dinner he has ordered for his fiancee...
...month for festivals throughout the U.S., the month when Bethlehem, Pa. makes its annual bow to Bach, when Conductor Frederick Stock takes his Chicago Symphony to Cornell College, Iowa, and on to Ann Arbor, Mich., where local choristers have long sung like professionals. Cincinnati's biennial festival took five days last week. Soloists were there from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. Seven hundred schoolchildren sang at the Saturday matinee. Trained adults were well equal to Mendelssohn's Elijah, to Bach's St. Matthew Passion. Conductor Eugene Goossens had prepared three premieres especially for the occasion: Atalanta...
Biggest bidder was a Guernsey hotelman named Walter Martin. Bidder Martin bought 750 lots, including the contents of the captain's cabin, which cost him $930. But his No. 1 prize was a piece of the port bow bearing the ten metal letters MAURETANIA. For that he gladly paid $750. The letters from the starboard bow sold individually for $20 each. Total realized...
...Juniors appointed were: Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Jr., of New York City and 9 Bow Street, Raymond Dennett, of Williamstown and Adams House, Robert Carlton Hall of Brookline and Leverett House, Milton Gabriel Green, of Newton Center and Lowell House, and LeMoyne White, of Boston and Dunster House...