Word: bows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yatsen, "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and as holy to China as Lenin is to Russia. Between pack-jammed ranks of 1,200 neck-craning relatives, 57 couples advanced with diffidence, two couples at a time. Mayor Wu, officiating, encouraged each bride and groom to bow thrice to a statue of Dr. Sun, twice to each other and once to Mayor Wu. He then handed to each bridegroom a satisfying certificate done in multi-colored inks and the marriage was complete...
...Clothes Wanted by Max Keezer. 3 Bow Street. I am paying higher cash prices than any other dealer for your cast-off clothing. Old gold, watches, chains, diamonds, bric-a-brac, furniture, carpets, etc. Remember Max Keezer...
...delight the eye. Jeannette MacDonald, lush and smiling, is at her best as the French princess who flees to New Orleans to escape a rich but gouty husband-elect. In the part of the mercenary Captain who conquers her heart in the New World, Nelson Eddy makes his first bow before a cinema audience which will no doubt place him among its stars. The new addition to the firmament has a pleasingly masculine personality and a good baritone voice. It is unfortunate, although not irreparable, that his speaking voice sounds like any one you might hear on the bus between...
...Wartime machine-gunner against the Hindenburg Line, gave his recipe for enjoying Hell: "The first thing is to boil your black cat. You get your pot and go into the woods. Just as you get ready to boil your cat, a wind will come through the woods and bow down the limbs of trees and sweep the ground clean for a place for the pot. After you boil the black cat, you pull the bones, every one of them, between your teeth. But first the wind blows and sweeps the ground clean around the bones. Then you walk...
...Freshman 150 pound crew that will probably stay is scated as follows: stroke, George von L. Meyer, 3rd; 7, William B. Winkler; 6, Robert G. Walker, Jr.; 5, William H. Brown; 4, A. McCleman; 3, Charles K. Lawrence; 3, McGrane; bow, David R. Donovan; and cox, Joseph M. Valentine