Word: crested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dressing room, the only one on the Universal lot with a private kitchen, he consumed enormous lunches of boiled beef with horseradish sauce, crawfish, Wiener Schnitzel and beer. He took pleasure in eating on the set, put on 15 lb. while the picture was in production. At the Beverly Crest house where he lives with his wife and three children, and where each piece of furniture is tagged with a brass plate giving the name of the play from which he earned money to buy it, he is now engaged in removing the 15 lb., a task made difficult because...
...have now passed the crest of the third minor recovery since the low point of the Depression," said the Annalist last week. "According to certain private advices from Washington, the outlook now is for a continuation of the present moderate recession in business activity until late summer, when the effects of new Government expenditures are expected to inject another dose of stimulant into industrial activity...
...washed in Cleveland's splendid Maternity Hospital, one of the assistants of Professor Thomas Wingate Todd, Western Reserve University's anthropologically minded anatomist, marches in with calipers and measuring tape. She measures the baby from head to foot- feet, shins, thighs; hands, forearms, arms; feet to crest of head, rump to top of head; breadth and depth of head. The baby may wriggle and mew but willy-nilly he is one more mannikin in a long, laborious, illuminating research...
...highly melodramatic canvas of the evacuation of a Missouri farmhouse: the ruthless soldiers, the fainting mother, the weeping daughters, the stalwart father. When in 1879 Thomas Ewing ran for Governor of Ohio, George Caleb Bingham sent Martial Law junketing from town to town in that State on the crest of a flood of anti-Ewing pamphlets. General Ewing was defeated...
...rivers might not be entirely under control in times of major floods, but the crest of the floods would have been lowered. . . . Power lines would have flung an intricate, interconnected network over the whole region. . . . Every farmer's family would find its work lightened by the use of electricity. New manufactures, perhaps new inventions, might have restored some of their lost traffic to the rivers. Possibly recreational uses would have supplanted commerce on most of them. Playgrounds of all sorts . . . would be more extensive and more thickly spotted over...