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...artist, still addicted to lengthening her snub nose with putty, Tatiana Riabouchinska, usually superb in pale, willowy roles, last week turned flamboyant in a ballet the troupe is doing for the first time in the U. S.-Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or. As the golden cock which warned silly King Dodon whenever disaster impended (which was often), Riabouchinska leaped frantically, shook dazzling tail feathers against the bizarre, glaringly-colored backgrounds of Nathalie Gontcharova. With the often repetitious opera airs of Rimsky-Korsakov cut to ballet length, Le Coq d'Or made good colorful sense...
...with most African Methodist bishops, who generally disapprove of dancing and fun-making. But he is a disciplinarian, was quick last week to suspend the presiding elder of his Philadelphia district when he learned that that black Methodist had brawled with another clergyman, shouting "I'm the fighting cock of the Main Line, and everybody knows it." Said Bishop Sims in dealing with the offender: "I never kill a man but when one commits suicide I bury...
...have smudged history's pages, and as he takes his belligerent way through their ranks they are constantly knocking the chip off his shoulder. This attitude has led Author Roberts into some historic underdog fights, notably in the case of Benedict Arnold (Rabble in Arms). Readers generally will cock a sympathetic ear when he asks angrily: "Out of what history can you get an understanding of [how things really were]? Not out of one damned history. Or out of ten. And if that isn't a show-up of our historians, I don't know what...
...Their money could apparently buy everything. . . . Their accent was beginning to be an asset, even to the English themselves, in truly 'smart' circles; it was beginning-you listened in that night?-to be heard in the voice of the young tribal God himself. . . . They were cock-a-hoop, and since Edward's accession getting insolent and out-of-hand. There was but one more world to conquer. The first woman to sit in the ancient Commons was a divorced American.* why not then also...
...interviewing the types that were his neighbors in his native New York and were later to elect him mayor. He received his law degree in 1910. As a member of Congress for 14 years, he attracted national attention. His shrill voice, squat body and flashing eyes went into bantam-cock motion when he felt legislation was unintelligent and designed for the privileged. His fearlessness, eloquence and ready wit kept him on front pages...