Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clara Bow, 43, "It" Girl of cinema's flapper era, better known to a later generation as radio's first "Mrs. Hush," would come out of retirement, briefly, for a stage appearance. The show: a Santa Fe straw-hat production of Personal Appearance. Her role: a man-crazy movie actress on tour. Now the wife of a rancher (ex-Movie Cowboy Rex Bell) and mother of two children, Clara was doing it strictly "for fun." A Hollywood comeback later on? Not a chance, said she: "I had my babies and I like the life in Nevada . . ." After...
...Howe will be the marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally happy couple...
Johnny Allegro (Columbia). For years, Hollywood has been concocting improbable scripts for the minor talents of George Raft. This one, more bizarre than most, casts him as a florist who becomes the target for a bow & arrow killer...
...Treasurer of the United States. A former actress, later a bank president and storekeeper in Richland, Kans., Mrs. Clark got her reward for political labors: $10,000 a year, use of a limousine, the pleasure of seeing her signature* on all U.S. folding money. ¶Received a new bow tie from a caller, Michigan's new Democratic governor, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, who had been given a whole box of them. The onetime haberdasher whipped off his four-in-hand, skillfully knotted the bow tie without looking in a mirror...
...show of defiance and turned to the court for help. Said Judge Medina: "Answer the question." Loudmouthed Defense Lawyer Harry Sacher stood up and shouted "I advise him of his constitutional right to refuse." Judge Medina stonily intoned "I repeat my direction." Gates was defiant: "I would have to bow my head in shame and I could never raise my head in decent society if I ever became a stool pigeon. Even under the court's direction...