Word: alee
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hottest cry of all came from crinkle-headed "Dry" Thomas Magnay, member from Gateshead, an accountant and ardent bowler, who drinks only water and dry ginger ale. Shouted he: "All things that are sweet and reasonable and Christian are being more and more jeered at and flouted. . . . We know that art and literature have been befouled. ... In literature every man is a cad and every woman a vamp. . . . We have the devotees of St. Vitus' dance called Jazz . . . volplaning down the descending scale. You hear crooners breaking their hearts every night-if anybody broke their necks I should...
...with the judge episode in "My Favorite Wife," the News traces the "Let's Pan Yale Crusade" through "Hired Wife," "The Villain Still Pursued Her," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Strawberry Blonde," and finally "The Lady Eve," in which a bored waiter gives vent to a sneering "We want Pike's Ale, the ale that won for Yale...
...this country must flood Britain with the aid which the defenders need so badly. Guns and planes and shells and ships must flow in a ceaseless stream from this hemisphere to the other. An arsenal we must be, not because we love the land of roast beef and brown ale, but because we fear for the land of hamburgers and Coca Cola. Up to this point we see eye to eye with Mr. Conant as to what is to be done. But here we part company, radically, and our parting reveals the difference in theory that underlies our separate concepts...
Anthropologist Aleś Hrdlička of the Smithsonian Institution tirelessly measures human skulls both quick and dead...
...year pay roll. Ever since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party...