Word: pow-wow
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With such mighty probabilities in his brief case, the Personal Representative entrained for Cleveland, where jubilant Spanish-American War Veterans held a pow-wow to welcome their returning onetime president, where he prepared to put the finishing niceties on his report before going to the President. Said he: "My mission to the Philippines has been one of some delicacy...
...established himself as the most mentionable personality in his party until the 1928 Presidential nomination is settled. His hold on New York State-more specifically New York City-is partly the glamor of the Fulton Fish Market, the "sidewalks of New York" and the band-snorting pow-wow.* But, also, he makes it a point to know more about the government of New York than any of his rivals and he explains it to the people better than any one else...
...political pow-wow on the night before election to "bring out the vote," with ts sputtering red fires and Roman candles, its brass bands, its raucous boys beating garbage cans, its stout old men parading with signs hitched crazily to curtain rods, was once a fundamental U. S. institution. Now only Tammany Hall and lower Manhattan indulge in it heavily...
...eighth session within three years (TIME, Sept. 10, 1923, et seq.) of the League of Nations Advisory Commission on the Traffic in Opium flowered into an impassioned poppy pow-wow last week...
...with a cargo of celebrities: Vladimir de Pachmann, Russian pianist; Clarence Dillon, who recently paid $146,000,000 for the Dodge Motor Car Co (TIME, Apr. 13); Colonel James A. Logan Jr., who has been unofficial onlooker for the U. S. at nearly every pow-wow of European diplomats for the past few years, and his bride (see MILESTONES) ; Miss Belle Baruch; and the unobtrusive Miss Collins, quietly sleeping in cabin F53-54 with a bunch of white gardenias reposing in a vase on her dresser...