Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Sinatra found a fine refuge from bobby-soxers: a U.N. Security Council meeting. "The Voice" attended in peace with Sculptor Jo Davidson, departed unmolested. Nearest thing to an upsetting experience was some picture-taking later: Sinatra and his big bow tie (his wife makes them for him) didn't look half so much like a heart-leaping popular idol as 63-year-old Davidson and his little...
Spencer, tall (a stooping 6 ft. 5 in.), strawberry-blond, and handsome, is a specialist in Elizabethan tragedy and modern poetry. Dressed in tweed jacket, grey flannels and loud bow tie, he grips his lectern and recites poetry in a flowing, resonant voice and a Philadelphia accent improved in Britain. Characteristic advice to students: to understand James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "lie on your bed, hold the book over you, and let the words just pour down." Next year, to the two courses he now teaches to Harvard and Radcliffe students, he will add English V-the Boylston course...
When Mason, a Republican who likes bow ties, boating and plain talk, was appointed a commissioner by his old friend Harry Truman, the President hoped that Mason would turn FTC into a plain-speaking tribunal. Businessmen could then get quick, common sense answers on important labeling matters. By substituting chatty, humorous prose for the usual gobbledygook, Mason proved that he was the man the President thought...
Last Sunday, Ruiz Galindo and his era took a bow. In the main production room of his unfinished Industrial City, Mexico's National Industrial Chamber of Commerce opened a giant exhibition of Mexican-made products...
...Dickens could not shake off the specter of death, though he fought it to the very brink of the grave. He insisted on a secret burial without mourning clothes-"No scarf, cloak, black bow, long hatband or any other revolting absurdity." But he was powerless to stem the flood of mourners who thronged Westminster Abbey to view his open grave...