Word: bows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drollery, along with the cartoons, and an advertisement announcing that the lampoon is offering a prize of 3 dollars "to the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled," are the only contributions to humor made this month by the Bow street rakes. There may, indeed, be some truth to the report that the idle clerks in Roger Kent have taken to "ghosting" for the Lampoon in lien of rent...
Acting in the movie as such is practically nil. Few club members knew bow to act which is fine. The way it turned out, characters are natural by necessity, especially so when they didn't know they were being filmed. This happened more than once to curious spectators who came over to watch the company "on location" in an around Boston...
...Sack Suit. The people are fascinated and curious to meet their ex-god in the flesh. Said a Nagasaki official: "No wonder the people are excited and happy. This is the first time they have really seen the Emperor. Before, we had to bow deeply when he passed. By the time we looked up he was already gone." In the country one old woman walked beside the Emperor for several minutes, staring at him in disbelief because he did not wear a uniform. Explained a Japanese journalist: "Now he is the sebiro no Tenno [Emperor in a sack suit]. Before...
Nine years ago, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, an overworked schoolteacher in upstate New York, bowled over the nation's critics with his first novel, a precision-built tour de force called The Ox-Bow Incident. Its firm, restrained handling of the problem of good and evil arising from a mob lynching crowned Clark with the halo of great promise. Five years later came The City of Trembling Leaves, a long, rambling study of sensitive youth in Reno, Nev., which made readers wonder if Ox-Bow had not been an accident of perfection. His new novel will keep them wondering...
...Track of the Cat, Clark again busies himself with the question of evil, but he has switched from the cool clarity of Ox-Bow to a naive, sometimes murky symbolism that gets in the way of his essentially simple yarn. Again the scene...