Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...describes Johnson's arrival at Boswell's home, Boswell's delight at his dear wife's consideration for his friend, Johnson's unvaried conversational triumphs, the period from Aug. 14 to Nov. 22, when Johnson started back to England. Johnson's celebrated "bow-wow-way," as Lord Pembroke called it, without which his conversation would seem less extraordinary, appeared conspicuously in almost every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder...
...Democratic Convention of 1932. As the 1936 campaign approached, how- ever, and the New Deal's need of all the support it could get in New York State became apparent, a notable change came over the President. Last week he addressed to Tammany's Independence Day pow-wow a letter in which he declared: "In this day, as in the days of its founding, the Society of Tammany is on the side of popular rights and against the exploitation of the many for the benefit of a favored...
...wow on syphilis and gonorrhea attracted 2,500 social sanitarians to Manhattan last week. Significantly they ignored morals, invoked statistics and publicity as their best weapons against the nation's venereal disease problem. As a result of open discussion, members of the American Social Hygiene Association hope that syphilitics and gonorrheics will cease to hide from doctors, will have themselves healed either privately or at free public clinics. Last week 577 communities had 827 such free clinics...
...Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation a gangster named Adam Richetti, wanted for taking part in the Kansas City Station massacre. That refusal marked the peak of jealous friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies. Last winter Attorney General Homer Still Cummings tactfully called a peace pow-wow in Washington between the conflicting parties (TIME, Dec. 24). On the theory that the camaraderie of the classroom makes for mutual understanding and friendship, it was decided that three schools should be set up within the Department of Justice. One would undertake to familiarize new district attorneys, most of whom...
With red-robed and full-wigged judiciary celebrities gazing solemnly down from the walls of the Langdell Hall Court Room, the three justices in the Supreme Court of the Ames Competition handed down a decision giving the Scott Club a victory over the Pow Wow Club in the first of the quarter final arguments...