Word: prow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...porpoise loves the prow of a ship, Shaw splashed happily in the public gaze. But Mrs. Shaw once told a reporter: "I am never interviewed, never photographed, and one of my special desires is that no newspaper should ever mention my name." She was the one woman in Britain, someone said, who put all her brains into remaining unknown. According to her own estimate, she spent "a third of my time looking after my husband...
Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") Dall, 14-year-old granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, did bottle-smashing honors across the prow of the new U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Pathfinder at a Seattle shipyard...
Best Foot Forward (TIME, Oct. 13). A tuneful, frisky musical with "Youth on the prow and Pleasure at the helm...
...ageless, grotesquely ugly face at the prow of a beautiful head. . . . Eyes pale with intensity seemed more like hieroglyphics of intelligence than eyes in a face and a somber Semitic nose carved with chastening Polish delicacy supported them. Pale firmly-full lips smiled with nervous sadness over strange teeth, and only the chin was allowed to rest a little from the forward-moving pace of his vitality. It afforded a slight pause in the breathless race to take in the rest. The next minute you realized that its backward movement was controlled with a fierceness that could defeat a Napoleon...
...Maritime Commission's Emory Scott Land was still speaking when the S.S. Patrick Henry started down the ways in Baltimore. Surprised Mrs. Henry Agard Wallace just managed to whack the prow with a bottle before the ship was out of reach. One explanation offered: Maryland's rambling Senator George Radcliffe had talked so long he threw the schedule out of whack...