Word: bowsing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The businessman in the fiction of the '20s and '30s not merely seemed a boor and a menace: he was scarcely a real human being. He was a full-time symbol, unable to buy a new necktie without illustrating "conspicuous consumption,'' or to fall in love...
Neckties Galore. A Republican, Welch has never been active in politics or civic affairs. Twenty-five years ago he took a spacious Colonial house in nearby Walpole. (The Welches have two married sons, three granddaughters.) Although he has an air of studied carelessness, Welch is actually something of a dandy...
Racing conditions were so bad that the Princeton freshman boat, somewhat hindered by a ripped bow canvas sank after the finish of the race. The oarsmen were picked up by several launches. In that race waves surged past the bows of the shells, splashing the oarsmen in all four boats...
The audience clapped for five minutes. But Toscanini barricaded himself in his dressing room, did not return for his bows.
Conductor Jordá is delighted with his new job, calls his orchestra "superb," and makes deep bows to Papa Monteux for assembling it. So far, he says, he has not troubled to ask what his salary will be: "That will be handled by my-what do you call it?-impresario...