Word: cocoanuts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Geddes found the 500-room hotel, with its swimming pool, junior-size golf course and famed Cocoanut Grove cabaret, completely lacking in "coherence and good taste." The hotel's circular marquee looked to him like one of the "30 or 40 hot-dog stands in the immediate area." As for the Cocoanut Grove, "you don't have to have drab palm trees . . . Does the Pump Room have a pump...
...Tail Is Better." At 14, at prep school: "Hurrah, Hurrah, Hurrah. Groton 46-St. Marks 0. I am hoarse, deaf, and ready to stand on my cocoanut. Our team played a wonderful game." Sara Delano Roosevelt sent him stamped, self-addressed envelopes to make sure that he would write often...
Twitchy & Bouncy. In 1932, Jackie Smith, then 16, sat in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove gaping at Bing Crosby and the Rhythm Boys. Then & there he swore an oath: "I'm going to make it my life's work to get on that stage." Within three months, Jack's life's work was completed, when he and two other high-school kids were signed to sing at the Grove. Twelve years later, Jack was still a promising young crooner. Last week his twitchy, bouncy tenor was being gargled for its third consecutive year...
...Senate if New Mexico's Carl Hatch decides not to run again next year. But this week Clint Anderson was off for Hawaii, where he will spend the next few weeks resting up and thinking it over with Bob Hannegan at Ed Pauley's fancy Cocoanut Island hideaway...
...office for the Democrats in the face of a Republican legislature. The Republicans began legislating powers out of the mayor's hands and into its own patronage grab bag, with the result that an authority has been so divided it was impossible to fix the blame for the Cocoanut Grove disaster in 1942 and Hub bureaucracy has been left hopelessly confused and uneconomically corrupted...