Word: autumns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...farm home of their old friend C. Blevins Davis, onetime Independence schoolteacher who came into money on the death of his wife, Great Northern Railroad Heiress Marguerite Sawyer Hill. This set some local tongues wagging, since Host Davis had been sued by a New York salesman named Collins last autumn on the grounds that he had found Mrs. Hill and helped C. Blevins win her for his bride. The Trumans firmly ignored the gossip, went to the party, and seemed to have a fine time...
...arrows of sapphin light. The red spills a hail of rubies into the cathedral's dimness. Diamondlike borders of white dots keep the chief col ors from crowding each other. Subsidiary greens, purples and golds help create an effect richer and more various than New England's autumn foliage...
...usual in the U.S. fall, historical novels have been fluttering down like autumn leaves. Few of them will stay very long. In general, publishers will be well satisfied to see the last copies lying like mulch at the foot of the nation's Christmas trees. Meanwhile, for the next few weeks, they will be spread far & wide by the big wind of publicity. The ruddiest of them...
...England bowed to its first autumn monsoon over the weekend, the University witnessed winds of 60 miles per hour and heavy rains totalling almost two inches. Students who could find hip boots waded through four inches of water covering Boylston Street. Others raced about to buy antifreeze or drain radiators when the thermometer dove to 32 degrees...
Himself a former varsity athlete; he realized that the strength of a university's athletic program was to be measured not by the crowds it drew to its Stadium each autumn Saturday, but by the availability of its athletic facilities to all its students...