Word: cinnamon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addressed as pigeon-men, cat-men, fish-men. The pigeon-men traipsed through long rows of cages, following taciturn judges who pointed metal wands at the chosen birds-tumblers, carriers, homers. Ella, a parrot, cried: "When in Childs do as the children do." Pavlova, stork, danced a jig. Socrates, cinnamon bear, ponderously spelled out proverbs with colored blocks: BE GOOD AND YOU'LL BE LONESOME. EARLY TO BED. EARLY TO RISE AND YOU'LL NEVER MEET ANY PROMINENT PEOPLE. Florenz Ziegfeld bought a white wolf, not for his daughter Patricia but to give to the Boston...
Pinoleum Million. So long ago that the trade name has become a common proprietary, a Dr. Bryan D. Sheedy, nose & throat man, mixed menthol, camphor, oil of eucalyptus, oil of Ceylon cinnamon and pine-needle oil in liquid petroleum and called his preparation pinoleum. He formed a corporation, the Pinoleum Co., which in recent years despite sharp competition by Standard Oil and others, has averaged $60,902 annual profits. Dr. Sheedy died three years ago. Last week his estate appraised...
Accompanied by a small thunderclap and two cinnamon clouds, a railway-mounted 14-in. coastal gun hurled a 1,560 Ib. projectile 25 miles out into Chesapeake...
Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table...
Charles Augustus Lindbergh went to Mexico after animals and received special permission from the government to shoot two cinnamon bears and two machos berendes (wild bulls). From the Hal Mangum ranch came a despatch telling of Lindbergh's slaying an antelope from an airplane...