Word: rowe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Willie Hoppe saw a friend in the second row, and on his way to the table he stopped and shook hands-with his left hand. To use his right would have dislodged the poise of the fine muscles there. The table stood on a carpet in the middle of the ballroom. He began to play with confidence and a measured rhythm. From four sides of the room the faces of the crowd, banked in rows, in the shadow, in the airless heat, watched him without moving. This was an important evening for Willie Hoppe. Boy prodigy, now nearly 40, balkline...
...virtue. But the villainous-looking Judge fools everybody by turning up with a truly great Western heart about the end of Act II, and reconciling the two lovers. As the final curtain steals down, the heroine pats her boy lover on his curly noddle, fixes an intent gaze on Row M, chants mystically, "Life is all a great joke...
During their southern jaunt in the third week in April the University diamond warriors will play six consecutive games against powerful opposition. This will be the first year that a nine has undertaken six battles in a row...
Echoes. Senator James Thomas Heflin of Alabama read the decision of the Fall-Doheny jurors. His white waistcoat swelled with indignation; he hastened to tell his colleagues about it. When they saw him rise from his seat in the back row of the Senate, they knew he would discourse for a half hour. Said he: "I do not want this day to pass without saying a word about a farcical trial&* and miscarriage of justice that has taken place in the city of Washington. I feel that the people of the nation, the law-abiding citizens, the honest...
...Great Lakes freighters are long, na-row-beamed, flattish-decked vessels, modifications of the original roundish-decked "whalebacks." The "whalebacks" were so eminently fitted for transporting bulk cargoes like ore, coal and grain that they became world-famed. So now, in popular usage, "whaleback" is often wrongly applied to any lake carrier. Sculptor Daniel Chester French (designer of the Lincoln at Washington, the John Harvard at Cambridge) followed this popular conception when, in his symbolic group before the unwashed Cleveland postoffice, he placed a whaleback on the arm of Commerce to typify modern lake traffic...