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Word: mowers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...towns and villages have not their broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cretins* | 9/29/1924 | See Source »

...fortunate that Wells and Ervine in this episodic play abandoned satire, since the seraphic role is played by a woman. Margaret Mower disarms criticism in male attire by her chastely modulated performance, illustrating that Heaven is not concerned with pants vs. petticoats. The play exalts at all times. It is a good spree for idealists who enjoy watching our current human clay turned into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 25, 1924 | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...Martin Mower, Instructor in Rendering (School of Architecture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAKE APPOINTMENTS FOR ENSUING COLLEGE YEAR | 6/12/1923 | See Source »

...Martin Mower, Fine Arts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPOINTMENTS LISTED FOR NEXT COLLEGE YEAR | 4/11/1923 | See Source »

Four judges have already viewed the settings: Mr. T. P. Robinson, of the Workshop, from the artistic and architeetural point of view; Mr. Morton Mower of the Fine Arts Department, from the artistic; Mr. Howard Forbes, of the Workshop, from the lighting, and Professor George Pierce Baker '87, of the English Department, from the producer's viewpoint. A representative from the Architectural School, to be appointed, will also judge them from the architectural side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 47 WORKSHOP STAGE SETTINGS ON EXHIBITION THURSDAY | 1/4/1921 | See Source »

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