Word: low
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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George Ehret had kindly little eyes and a wedge-shaped bald head, spreading out at the neck. His stiff collars, always too big for him, were immense, low and broad; he tucked the ends of his black bow tie up under the flaps of his collar. His figure was square, his legs a little bowed...
Sweet and low, then soaring. What but "Jenny Lind"?the little swede that Barnum made "The Swedish Nightingale." Ah, ah. . . co-lor-a-tur-AH?very nice. The audience stood up and cheered while young Composer Moore bowed from...
...believe he was really going. It was almost ludicrous. Here he was, a planner of big things and a doer of them, a substantial, efficient person who left nothing to chance, actually tripped and frustrated by an obstacle which had seemed microscopic only yesterday. He was a lion laid low by a mouse, a pilgrim to El Dorado who had stepped on a dust adder...
Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some...
...business turn for the textile companies may be at hand. U. S. cotton is priced exceedingly low and people in the U. S. are buying more and more domestic-made cotton goods, importing less; and the movement to use coarse-woven cotton bagging, instead of imported jute, has started...