Word: crushes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, who hit the front pages in the '30s by marrying Heiress Barbara Button, rose from his latter-day obscurity to crush a canard. It was getting around that ex-Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...
...whose "new and important task" was to shield the Soviet people against threatening fascist crusades. Historian Eugene Tarle, who jumps higher for his fish than any other Soviet-trained seal, declared in Red Star that such crusades were even now being plotted by U.S. reactionaries who were trying to crush the U.S. working class as a preliminary to the imposition of a "Pax Americana" on the world...
...parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...
Representatives from hog districts, textile states, cattle regions, automobile centers, oil country, cotton belts and dairy lands logrolled pet peeves into law. In the crush, Connecticut's Herman P. Kopplemann offered an amendment of "sympathy to the American people," heard it voted down by a whacking majority...
...Covent Garden, London's Royal Opera House, which jitterbugging G.I.s used as a dance hall during the war, reopened with a gala performance of the Tchaikovsky ballet Sleeping Beauty. The King and Queen, Queen Mary and the Princesses arrived in their gleaming Daimlers. A photographer, kneeling in the crush, tugged at a trousered leg, begged: "Give us a break, will you, George." He was embarrassed when the King turned around...