Word: clair
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...always improvised on the spot, gave a vast, fresh native energy to the ancient traditions of clowning. They also made the law laughable and legs lucrative, were a training course for half the biggest stars of the '20s, and the source and schoolroom for the comedies of Rene Clair, the brilliant experiments of Preston Sturges...
...Major General St. Clair Streett was relieved of command of the Third Air Force (Southeast U.S.) and sent to an overseas assignment. The first man in the Army to wear brass buttons on his O.D. uniform,* wiry Jimmy Streett has recently been concentrating on the training of big-bomber crews...
Company Commander Ira Reese, with several years of active service in the Navy behind him, is the sea-dog among us. Sub-Commander Matt Stacom and Adjutant Clair Merritt, along with a majority of the men in this company, were classmates at Abbot Hall, Northwestern University...
...Foundation members include such famed scholars as Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Yale's Geographer Ellsworth Huntington, Columbia's Economist Wesley Clair Mitchell, the Smithsonian Institution's Secretary Charles Greeley Abbott...
...Burned 80,000 books valued at 300,000 pesos, including volumes by Upton Sin clair, John Dos Passes, Karl Marx, and the Dean of Canterbury's Soviet Power...