Word: stowe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...costing about $200 when attached below the knee, $225 when attached above. They weigh about five pounds, last five or six years. Artificial arms cost from $125 for simple types to $250 for those including movable wrists and hands. Wearers always remove their artificial limbs upon retiring, usually stow them under the bed. They can be donned in two or three minutes. Many wearers attach their stockings with thumbtacks, but manufacturers frown on this, recommend normal garters attached by screws, as is necessary with aluminum legs. Artificial legs have two advantages, according to Manufacturer Joe Spievak who retired as president...
...Stow Whitman of Dartmouth was the first man home followed by George Quinn of New Hampshire and Jim Wallace of the Hanoverians. Henry Marcy was the first Harvard harrier to finish taking fifth spot. He was followed by Hayden Channing in ninth, Roswell Brayton in tenth, BBI Wright in eleventh, Charley Worth in twelfth, and John Erhard in thirteenth...
Unluckily for Chris's simple Q.E.D., Anne's true love landed just after Chris had sailed. The letter that told him what she had not been able to met him in Manhattan, made him jump ship there and stow away on the first liner he could find. His will to get back to Anne was strong enough to survive a shipwreck in mid-Atlantic, but not omnipotent enough to keep his wife from running away with a more compelling...
...gives $200,000 to the director of the company (Siegfried Rumann), who signs up famed Lassparri and his sweetheart, Rosa (Kitty Carlisle). Meanwhile, by mistake, Groucho has signed an unknown tenor, Ricardo Baroni (Allan Jones), who also loves Rosa. Ricardo, his friend Chico, and Harpo, discharged valet of Lassparri, stow away in Groucho's trunk when the opera company sets out for New York from Milan. What follows in the course of one of the most complicated feature comedies ever photographed concerns the efforts of Groucho and associates to get Ricardo a job in the opera company and further...
...gold in nothing less than $8,000 lots. Therefore the French peasantry, which has taken the place of Mother India as the world's most avaricious gold hoarder, has organized innumerable syndicates to buy the $8,000 ingots and divide them into little hunks. But easier to get and stow away are U. S. eagles ($10 gold pieces). Double eagles ($20 pieces) were advertised in French newspapers last week at $21.50 (550 fr.); the price has been as high as $25. A profitless nuisance to New York banks. Jean Frenchman, if he still wants eagles, must now send an agent...