Word: brooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...girl in Miss Hewitt's Classes was small and scrawny, with lank orange hair that hung to her shoulders and a worried little button mouth that made her look like a newborn mouse. She stood stiffly in a corner like a broom somebody had left there, while the other girls smiled and pulled their sweaters down and wondered what the awkward little newcomer was doing in the drama class. When the teacher came in, she asked each girl in turn to say why she wanted to act. "Well, it's better than ballet," one saucy subdeb said...
...apocryphal John Harvard continued to contemplate his book last night, but the symbol of Ivy League superiority got little help from anti-Intellectual broom Jockeys who proved that nothing is sacred on All Hallow's Eve by planting a large and cynical pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity...
...expert advice for a man plagued by bats in his window shutters (a bat expert advised that he use a broom and let more light in between the shutter leaves...
Picked by President Eisenhower to head the cluttered, musty Federal Trade Commission in 1953, Washington Lawyer Edward F. Howrey immediately set about using a stiff new broom. He brought back FTC as the umpire of U.S. business practices, cleared up a mammoth backlog of antitrust and unfair-practice cases. Last week, when he resigned, Chairman Howrey was able to tell the President: "The Commission has been reorganized from top to bottom. Its docket is up-to-date for the first time in almost 40 years. Its policies have been reoriented to the original intent of Congress...
...Broom. In Strasbourg, France, after the street cleaners union demanded that Deputy Mayor Joseph Zell, 63, apologize or make good his boast that he could sweep the marketplace faster than the regulars, the Mayor grabbed a twig broom, cleared one-third of the area in a fraction of the time it normally took the usual five-man team...