Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousand eyes intruding upon their sentimental privacy. It never occurs to the stage criminal that his audience might, were it so inclined, betray his secret. His trust is as implicit as it is touch- ing. Suppose, for instance, that you, leaping up from your seat in the sixth row center, were to level an accusing finger at the dissolute brother and shout in stentorian indignation: "He it was, and not the poor but honest hero on whom he is trying to lay the blame, who took the missing papers from the lower drawer of the mahogany desk in the upper...
...White, Red and Blue Freshman crews had a long, easy row of about eight miles while the 150-pound and dormitory crews rowed a shorter distance...
Sixteen crews were able to row on the Charles today after the three coaching launches had spent the morning and the early part of the afternoon breaking up the thin sheet of ice formed by the last two days of cold weather...
...Soviet Government has a hard row to hoe. The sum total of the Communist Party is only an infinitesimal part of the Russian population, who, may it be said, give the Bolsheviki more trouble than is generally supposed. The Government has another task hardly less difficult: the efficient governing of Russia. This requires money. One way of getting it is by the sequestration of church property...
...ROW, a noisy disturbance, tumult, or trouble. Originally Cambridge, now universal. Seventy years ago it was written ROUE which would indicate a French origin, a profligate or disturber of the peace...