Word: cowled
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...Jealous Moon. Jane Cowl, indisputably among the more decorative of Manhattan's heroines, put herself to the perhaps necessary task of writing a play that would deserve embellishments by her upon the stage. The play was romantically sweet, about Pierrot, Columbine and Scaramouche. A designer of dolls, dreaming in far from Freudian fashion of their unfortunate intrigues, found advices in it for his own and on waking up for the epilogue, promised to be true to Judy. Jane Cowl was Judy and, in the doll-designer's dream, she played the part of Columbine...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...most valuable single contribution to airplane efficiency since the War" was the epithet that Chairman Joseph Sweetman Ames of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics last week placed upon a new form of cowl for radial air-cooled motors. The cowl, shaped like a huge bowl, fits over the cylinders back of the propeller and over the entire motor. It cuts down air resistance; it lets a plane that can go 118 m. p. h. go 137 m. p. h.; it saves in such case about three gallons of gasoline for every hour of flight, and it costs only...
...support his long crimson and white train. At one side of the Altar sat Her Majesty, Mary, Queen and Empress, clad in a long, shimmering cloak of gold tissue with hat to match. In sombre contrast was the Cross Bearer, his face obscured by an early Saxon monkish cowl. The high purpose of His Majesty in convoking the Order, for the fourth time in the 18 years of his reign, came to august fruition as he proceeded to induct twelve new Knights of the Grand Cross of the Bath...
...reading matter of the issue is also remarkable for its maintaining a high quality in the treatment of a set subject. A member of the CRIMSON board said recently that the vent in his life which he enjoyed most was his interview with Jane Cowl I think the article that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed...