Word: crisp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Added crisp Martha Steele McGrew of Tennessee, Major Lohr's able assistant and author of the curfew law. after an inspection of the Fair's night life: "After midnight about three-quarters of the Midway concessions had closed voluntarily. The chief objection to letting the others remain open indefinitely was the problem created by unescorted women who stay on the grounds late at night, too drunk to take proper care of themselves. We've had a terrible time keeping them off the trucks that are admitted to the grounds, to bring in supplies and collect refuse, after...
...Long Beach, Calif., in a regatta organized by Los Angeles promoters, University of Washington beat Yale, sprint champion in the East, by six feet, over the 2,000-meter Olympic course. Nearest thing to a 1933 substitute for the canceled Poughkeepsie regatta, the race was won against a crisp bow wind in 6:38 4/5 -10 sec. off the Olympic record...
...were usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter has turned down a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court and partnerships in firms worth $200,000 a year. Now 50, a man with a perpetually crisp, alert expression, and a charming wife, he will take a leave of absence next year...
...Department appointment three days after the inaugural. For his personal staff the new Assistant Secretary picked Arthur Mullen Jr., son of Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago convention floor manager; Celeste Jedel, 22, a pretty honor student out of one of his Barnard classes; Annette Pomerene, 23, a tall, dark, crisp graduate of Hunter College. Celeste Jedel has her desk in his office, is carried on the department's rolls as a member of its legal staff. She used to help Dr. Moley run his Barnard classes, manage his tea parties. So well does she know the current...
...hundred of the 174 girls at smart Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn, sat supping one night last week in the school's big, square "Four Corners" dormitory. All at once there were uneasy stirrings. At a crisp command the girls arose, marched out on the lawn. While teachers called the roll they watched flames writhe and shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep...