Word: caking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...police pounced on the sublieutenant, then began picking plotters out of the army like raisins out of a cake. They soon had 120 army officers and civilians ranging from General Schmidt of the poison gas department, a handful of colonels, a truckload of captains, down to a group of students who were supposed to start demonstrations in the street as soon as the assassinating had properly begun. Last week Rumania lay paralyzed by its worst assassination scare to date. The Government clapped on an iron censorship, pooh-poohed "a thing which usually should be regarded as nothing more than mere...
...heavier with age, he is now more tractable and far wiser. He drinks water from a golden cup which was one of his prizes. On his birthday last week, he behaved as usual-ate four quarts of oats, galloped four miles, sunned himself in paddock for two hours. A cake containing 17 carrots instead of candles, presented to Man o' War by the Lexington Board of Commerce, was eaten by his grooms...
William Henry Beecher. (1802-89) was a dyspeptic minister who was called "The Unlucky" because misfortune attended all his ventures. Of his wedding he wrote: "Was married. . . . No company, no cake, no cards-nothing pleasant about it." William begat six children. Edward Beecher (1803-95) was for a time president of Illinois College. In a best-selling theological work called The Conflict of Ages he carried on the family trend away from orthodoxy. Said his father: "Edward, you've destroyed the Calvinistic barns, but I hope you don't delude yourself that the animals are going into your...
...better quashed than quaffed. In an era of economic nationalism, the charitable support of colonial possessions, however Christian, must be swept away. Philippine motes are ocularly harmless compared with the beam of depression. The McDuffie Bill remains a rough-hewn measure, but, even if Congress insists on eating its cake and having it too, there's time to munch the crumbs later. JUDAS...
...shaft that telescoped into a streamlined statue of Lenin. Picking words that would sting most he declared of Iofan's work: "It goes back to the most decadent pseudo-Roman development, the sort of thing old kings and old queens loved, a sort of tremendous wedding cake . . . incorporating the worst archaic figures of the capitalistic system...