Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
...that broad table of his, in the corner of a vast room in the historic Palazzo Chigi, which with its lofty painted roof and row of fixed seats like choir stalls has something of an air of sacristy, are brought for Mussolini's approval reports and projects from almost every branch of public life in the country...
...Pinehurst young William Burke of Naugatuck, Conn., who used to boss caddies around at the Clearwater Country Club, Clearwater, Fla., took two threes and four fours in a row on the last nine holes, turned in a card of 291 that won the North-South Open, beating by five strokes the card of Tommy Armour, National Open Champion, and by six the card of John Farrell...
...pound oarsmen will journey to Kent School in Connecticut during vacation, it was announced yesterday. Two crews will make the trip and are scheduled to row twice daily as well as racing two Kent School crews next Wednesday...
...only change in the seating of the three crews was the temporary replacement of W. T. Emmet '29 by Amor Hollingsworth '30 at 5 position on crew C. Captain John Watts '28 did not row yesterday...