Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staid National Geographic Society rushed out a Washington bulletin describing "the thundering crash of hard dolomite rock ... as a normal part of a continuing process." But the voice of calm soon fell on reddened ears. After a closer look at their instruments, Canisius seismologists blurted: "Only a brontide [a low muffled sound caused by feeble earth tremors]." After a closer look at the Falls, Niagara Park Superintendent Francis Seyfried found them undamaged. Said he: "We have checked with the Army engineers and examined pictures and surveys going back as far as 1906. ... As far as we are concerned there...
...their best to carry on with the old precept of the "home away from home." After golf or tennis, they stop in at the club-the Polo (men only) or the Pickwick. The Polo provides two tables for volunteer snooker, a tattered copy of Punch, and a few low easy chairs in which members can order a whiskey-&-splash, and rehearse the good old days of rumrunning. The younger set prefer the Pickwick, for its jukebox...
...much so that when I walked down Fifth [Avenue] with him he had to beg me to get him into a taxi since the females pestered him so." Flagg's own pestering gets considerably more space in his book. The story of his love life starts in low gear ("How was I to know that beautiful Nellie, voluptuous and sweet to look upon, was physically frigid?"), but soon shifts into high...
Never had a Presiding Bishop been elected so quickly-the closed session of the House of Bishops lasted little more than an hour.* Exclaimed his predecessor, the Most Rev. Henry St. George Tucker: "A wonderful man for the job!" High, low and liberal churchmen alike were agreed...
...Eave been popular for weeks now, and better yet is "Cinderella Sue," a number which Avon Lang makes worth the venerated price of admission. As for Miss Crain, she is as unaffected and pleasant as she is easy on the eyes, despite the uninspired company of such experienced Fox low standard bearers as Wilde and Linda Darnell...