Word: towed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his Duchess in tow, the Duke of Windsor entered swank Fortnum & Mason's department store in London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be in harness again, the Duke bought the articles over the officer's protest, selfconsciously announced: "Go ahead. It's all right. I'm your Colonel-in-Chief...
...captain who, last week, sank the British sugar freighter Olivegrove, 200 miles southwest of Bantry, Ireland. This captain ordered the freighter to heave to (by shots over her bow), and to disembark her men in lifeboats. He then lay to, checked the castaways' compass, offered them a tow toward the nearest land. After scuttling the lifeless Olivegrove with one well-aimed torpedo, he stood by her survivors for nine hours until help neared (U. S. liner Washington). To attract it, he put lights on the lifeboats and fired two red rockets before taking his tactful leave...
...Economics Department in "The Progressive." The apparent cause for the movement is the complete lack of opportunity for further appointment after an instructor has proceeded for six or eight years in the University. This condition is verified by the fact that during the next ten years there are only tow permanent appointments open to the younger...
...such a statement, however nobly conceived, is merely a reflection of ignorance; no one can get very far in "one or two afternoons." He must work for months, years, to perfect the difficult techniques involved in tennis and squash. The report might as well have said that one or tow lessons with a good piano teacher will make musicians...
...Fields in his latest movie, "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man," now showing at Keith Memorial Theatre. Fields puffs and wheezes his way through a second-rate script that almost submerges the beauties of his alcoholic capers. Luckily Charlie McCarthy, with stooges Mortimer and Bergen in tow, gives the picture a hypodermic of crackling dialogue that saves it from going to sleep on its feet...