Word: card
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Thumbs Up, the Victory Game," where the winning card combination is three dots, a dash...
...year ago, Robinson fought his first professional fight-on the preliminary card at Madison Square Garden the night Fritzie Zivic won the welterweight title from Negro Henry Armstrong. Hammering Henry was Ray's ring hero. When he saw Zivic pound his hero's face into a tomato-red pulp, the kid sobbed: "Some day I'm gonna grow big enough to get even with him for what he did to Hank...
Contractor Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., ex-New Deal favorite, appeared in Atlanta with a black eye. To curious friends he handed a printed card: "... I was helping an old crippled lady . . . when her crutch slipped . . . and hit me in the eye. If you don't believe this, ask Evie [his wife], she doesn't either...
Mail Tale. In Washington, D.C., somebody stole a mailman's cart, delivered all his letters for him. In Boise, Idaho, a mailman listened to his portable radio as he walked his route. In Lynn, Mass., a mailman delivered a post card addressed to "Harry Baker and Robert See, Telephone Manhole, corner of Oxford and Washington...
Sitting in the noisy lunch-time atmosphere of his House dining room, Vag read the typewritten words on the back of a penny post card which had come in his morning mail. "I assume," it began, "that you forgot the appointment I made for a tutorial conference last Monday afternoon. . . ." The words acted like a cold shower on Vag's consciousness. . . . "Please do not fail to appear this afternoon at two o'clock. The assignment, as you know, is . . . " Vag's eyes widened from half-sealed slits to round marbles. He looked at his watch. Twenty minutes...