But if Crawford was such a swell as not to want to speak to a gentleman in public, why did he hold so many pow-WOWS in private with Spatola?
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre
And no sensible person could imagine me at the front of anything, unless it was a procession on its way to the bow-WOWS."
"Ashton-Kirk, Investigator"
John T. McIntyre
By this time the hurricane and boiler decks of the packets would be packed and black with passengers, the last bells would begin to clang all down the line, and then the pow-WOWS seemed to double.
"American Merchant Ships and Sailors"
Willis J. Abbot