Word: lowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficulties in the way of doing this are enormous. On the one hand, there is a large section of Hindu opinion to be reckoned with; and on the other, the Hindus and all India have again to be reminded that British justice takes into account nautch girls and low-caste merchants. Undoubtedly, the Maharaja must go. Rufus Daniel Isaacs (Lord Reading) was born in London a little more than 64 years ago, son of a Jewish merchant. After an education in London, Brussels, Hanover, he joined the London Stock Exchange, but quickly gave that...
Then he returned from New Orleans. He had laid low one Patrick Ryan in seven blood-red rounds. He, the "Strong Boy of Boston," was champion heavyweight pugilist...
...barrelhouse fist. The cadence of the cakewalk, wild plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors on sunbaked levees hummed it, strummed it; prancing shadows in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans heard it and humped themselves, their feet running wild...
...through it of late have gone a motley crew-peasants from the Caucasus, coatless students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...passageways under the bridge at present are low and inconveniently narrow for the passing shells. Navigation is made doubly difficult by the fact that a low railroad bridge of piles runs diagonally from one corner and makes it necessary to go under both structures. This will be done away with under the new construction, which provides for the cutting of the railroad at the middle of the bridge, thus leaving only one channel to be traversed...