Word: butchers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...citizens, not the police, have the primary responsibility. A British M.P., Kenneth Pickthorn, expressed the principle in the 1930s, when a bill was placed before the House of Commons to give British policemen extraordinary powers in order to fight native fascists. "I think it was a governess, a butcher's boy and a curate," said Pickthorn, "who got in the way of a gunman after he committed a murder recently; and there was Mr. Fisk, the Battersea bricklayer, who seized a gunman . . . and held on to him, though [Mr. Fisk] was almost shot to pieces. These are the real...
...Coronet magazine was even more confused. The day after Ike bowed out, radio stations were still booming out transcribed commercials for its February lead story: "Why I Like Eisenhower for President," by ex-Naval Aide Harry C. (My Three Years with Eisenhower) Butcher...
Manhattan's Communist New Masses, butcher-paper bible of the far left, last week had a birthday-its 37th and its last. Mounting costs had starved it to death; the 1947 deficit was an unmanageable $65,000. In two doleful, defiant pages, the editors wrote the obituary of a Marxist magazine that had first attracted, then repelled, some of the most brilliant writers...
...Bureau Chief John Osborne had managed to acquire "a large tree and a small goose," Correspondent Eric Gibbs's plight was typical. Cabled he: "Whether we eat turkey this Christmas depends on Number 22. If, as seems likely, there aren't enough turkeys to go around, our butcher will pull numbers out of a hat to decide who gets a bird. Pray...
...great shakes on looks. Unlike most greyhounds, he has a short tail that curls up at the tip. But he has all the breed's other characteristics: uncanny hearing, remarkable eyesight, a not too highly developed sense of smell. His owner, Paul Sutherland, a 43-year-old ex-butcher from Tulsa, expects to gross $40,000 this year. Says he: "Like all good dogs . . . Beachcomber's got brains...