Word: bowlers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Vice-captain Eastment, an M.I.T. graduate student and former business school student from Australia, was the most effective batsmen as well as the top bowler for the Crimson. Opening batsman, Eastment scored 45 runs before being called out for putting his leg before the wicket. In bowling, Eastment took 4 wickets for 27 runs. Mills, the third Crimson bowler took three wickets for 12 runs, while Ali took one wicket for four until forced to retire with a shoulder strain...
...follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from the trenches singing a plaintive little song ("I'll take a quiet road, and I'll lie in the sun/For birds and butterflies, I won't need my gun"), and a bowler-hatted dandy comes onstage to sing his epitaph as "the kind of fellow that fellow men like...
...gold and dollar reserves rose $689 million, and by the first of the month stood at $2,539,000,000, best since 1955. In the world's money markets, the pound's worth rose from a low of $2.78 to $2.81. Last week the bank's bowler-hatted runners fanned out again from Threadneedle Street to tell lesser banks and exchanges that its rate was cut. The new rate...
...learned too late by Owen: "If we are weak, we are not strong, and what we are, you see, ruins everything." In voodoo lore, Baron Samedi is the chief of the legion of the dead; he is represented by a wooden cross decked out, scarecrow fashion, in a black bowler hat, morning coat and goggles. In an ironic way, the baron is Author Dohrman's severest critic. How much closer can a writer get to the portrait of the artist as an undertaker...
...tells of the coming of the 1917 Revolution, when all the earnest, high-flown talkers pour into the streets with visions of a newly created heaven on earth. The last lines of the novel make a heartbreakingly ironic point: "We were outside our front door. Father took off his bowler hat and handed it to mother. He folded his arms, turned to Grabovsky and said: 'Imagine, freedom...