Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...motion for approval was put by First Lord of the Admiralty William Clive Bridgeman, a Cabinet member, speaking, he said, simply in behalf of "the man in the pew." Premier Baldwin himself supported Mr. Bridgeman, pointing out that the proposed revision was a compromise between high and low church opinion. He warned that to deny the church her carefully chosen ground of compromise would be to weaken her authority to a point at which proposals to disestablish the Church might again be made. "How many members of this House," he concluded, 'believe that the Church would survive disestablishment...
...distributed them among the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. And not even at the request of many bankers would it mint more. In the New York Federal Bank district, members last week could only get ten $2.50 gold pieces each. Bonuses. Banks and investment houses are notorious for the low salaries they pay their clerks. Handsomest presents reported last week were First National Bank of New York's bonus of a year's salary to each of its employes; the half-year's salaries paid by Hoit, Rose & Troster, Manhattan security sellers; the quarter-year's salaries...
...received a sad blow, or at least it might be sad to those who were inclined to take such things as statistics and reputation seriously to heart. The Rev. Charles Francis Potter, speaking at a meeting in New York, having recently made a survey of the "high and low spots on the American cultural map," apparently taking as his standard the per capita appropriation for library maintenance, disclosed the fact that Cleveland has within the last five years passed Boston as the cultural center of the country...
BURLESQUE?The love story of a soubrette and a low comedian...
BROADWAY?Light hearts, low minds, two murders in Manhattan after midnight...