Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...breaking up of the river has brightened considerably the prospects for actual work on the river, and if weather conditions hold it is probable that the Freshman I. F. M. 1 eight, together with three University 150 pound crews, will be given a short row on the Charles this afternoon...
...slip down the ways every day, and ship builders are at such a premium that skippers and their crews have to do their own repairing. Under cover of darkness or fog, dozens of swift motorboats ply between Highlands and the Bahama rum fleet anchored off the coast in " rum row...
...another of the remarkable " series" which made him famous. But at least he has recovered, for himself, what he chiefly sought in art,- the pageant of moving light and air. Going out at dawn into a field near his Normandy home, he would paint a swift " impression" of its row of little haystacks under the light of early morning. Another day, he would paint the same stacks, through the heat-shimmer of high Normandy noon. Then he mould paint them at dusk, or half-hidden with rain, coated with snow, or red with the sunset. The musical expression, " Air, with...
...Row many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality...
...artistic successes of the year, and who has just produced a dramatization of Julian Street's Rita Coventry. Mr. Adams, the "The F. P. A." of "The Conning Tower," is usually counted one of this group, but he seldom eats with them. He sits at his Park Row desk, diligently arguing with a telephone operator most of the day, an occupation which seems to aid him in the pursuit of the elusive brilliant line for the close of his column. Heywood Broun, lumbering, absorbed, but always jovial, is usually present. Of all persons to be accused of literary chicanery...