Word: bowsing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In the bow of each LSVP were two long ladders, one of aluminum and the other of wood. Each had long hooks at the top. These were the assault ladders to be thrown against the sea wall. As we ran for it, the ladders were up in the bows, making...
Curves & Kangaroos. Gossard was founded on a corset-string in 1900 by a Chicago buttons & bows dealer named Henry Williamson Gossard. At the time, corsets were laced from the rear and the agonized, swaybacked "Kangaroo figure" of the Gibson Girl was the vogue. In Paris, Gossard bought a dozen corsets...
Nagging Conscience. In similar fashion the Senate kept interrupting its urgent business all last week to make bows to the folks back home. Illinois' big, white-shocked Paul Douglas, singularly unbowed after threescore attempts to chop the omnibus appropriations bill, was back like a nagging conscience at the Senate...
Back in the days when Jean Georges Noverre, one of the grandfathers of ballet, was writing his famous Lettres sur la Danse (1760), Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet was just ten years old. But under a Noverre pupil named Antoine Bournonville and his son Auguste, the Danes learned so...
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