Word: ates
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death" unless political opponents gave way on some point or other. Five times he has lost a few pounds, won all his points, lived on. At high noon one day last week the skinny, 80-pound, 69-year-old Mahatma sat down before a crowd of sympathetic spectators and ate a meal of brown bread, cooked vegetables, oranges and a cup of hot goat's milk. Then he retired to a rustic cot in a room as bare as a Sing Sing cell and began his sixth fast until victory or death...
Breaking all records, either or Cambridge or of Poughkeepsie, Harold M. "Sim" Curtiss, ace pitcher on the baseball team, ate 34--yes, 34--ice creams,. after a full dinner...
...Coventry, a concert hall was destroyed and several stores were damaged by fire. Police discovered that toy balloons filled with nitric acid and placed in envelopes containing magnesium flash powder were being slipped under goods counters of the stores just before closing time. When the acid ate through the balloon, the magnesium would ignite and set the store on fire...
Even though he was too weak to take his daily drive, the Pope would have little to do with doctors, preferred to have his valet try "home remedies" to ease his pain. He ate only soft, bland foods: boiled chicken, thin vegetable soups, small amounts of rice pudding, occasional sips of red wine or champagne. Last November he had another serious attack of cardiac asthma, often had to get out of bed at night and sit in an armchair to relieve his coughing spells...
...fascinating bits as the following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley Schumpf ate too much peanut butter Wednesday and was out of school Thursday with a stomach ache. . . . Murilyn Estes uses her white shoes for an autograph al bum and likes to have all her friends sign their names along with little rhymes of poetry, such...