Word: connor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Between periods, the organ lustily pumped out a chorus or two of Alouette. That seemed to inspire Les Canadiens. With two minutes to go, Forward Buddy O'Connor lashed in the winning goal. In Manhattan next night, Les Canadiens brought their local color along. While winning again and clinching first place, they engaged in Madison Square Garden's liveliest hockey riot in many a year (partial score: three misconduct penalties, an obstreperous fan's bald pate creased...
...Magee slopped about the plant with his deadly liquor as though it were so much milk. Once, on an automobile trip, he asked O'Connor's 18-year-old son to hold a jug of it between his knees. O'Connor's customers were delighted with the sample plating he produced; orders flowed in and competitors began a wild but fruitless campaign to discover Magee's secret. A few weeks ago O'Connor gleefully put it into commercial production, a process which involved running an electric current through a 300-gal. stainless steel...
...Connor plant, a low, white brick-fronted building, simply disintegrated. Its roof rose into the air and flew apart, its framework splintered, its walls bulged and burst in one enormous moment of concussion and incandescence. The walls and roofs of nearby buildings were smashed; automobiles caved in on the streets...
...Doctor Disappeared. Police officers and fire authorities, interviewing O'Connor, were amazed and baffled by his description of Magee's secret liquid. They began checking his background...
Early in the century a fine, fiery Irish-Cornish lady named Marie Connor Leighton wrote throbbing serial stories with titles like Fires of Love and Sealed Lips. A copy boy waited in the hallway of her house in St. John's Wood, London, to dash with the latest installments to Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail. The income kept her household going: six servants, four dogs, three children, a secretary and a husband...