Word: curtsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lobby, Molotov strode ahead of his guards and encountered a San Francisco girl. Said she: "Welcome to our city." Molotov understood her manner, if not her words. He bobbed his quick, characteristic little curtsey, smiled with his eyes, and tossed something in Russian over his shoulder. Someone told the girl that he had said: "You are very nice...
Like an elephant trying to curtsey, the . world's biggest school system last week coyly re-enacted its birth. New York City's Board of Education was 100 years old. To celebrate, it dressed its little girls in pinafores and pantalettes, its little boys in jackets and Buster Brown collars. They read McGuffey readers, wrote on slates, drank water from dippers. Bearded teachers brandished canes at boys in dunce caps. A gentleman impersonating an old-time school trustee drove up to P.S. 15, The Bronx, in a gig. The city's schoolchildren were so bored they didn...
Also of Erskine, Miss Marjorie Robb makes her second curtsey to the college community, following up a recent radio success. Appearing in all three feminine parts of Side Street," a Gidding playlet on the Crimson Network, Marjorie won immediate commendation. The program had barely ended when the studio phone rang, and an eager but bashful undergraduate vowed his undying affection for her. Miss Robb promises the anonymous swain an opening-night date, if he can successfully establish his identity
Armed with a telephone, the one and only Stoopnagle stepped to the microphone with a curtsey and a smile. The Colonel brought down the house with jokes thrown at Harvard, the baseball world, and his supposed wife, and only the promise of his speedy return for an encore satisfied the enthusiastic audience...