Word: crusts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kansas editor, wearing the grey tweed suit and grey cap that he always wears in the mountains, looking more than ever like an apple dumpling with a smile carved into its outer crust, beamed on his mountain neighbors. The nights were growing cool. When William Allen White left Emporia with Mrs. White two weeks ago, the thermometer stood at 105° on the bleached Kansas plain; here he needed his topcoat ; the snows of October were on the way. Now elk grazed in the meadow before the house at sundown...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...
...Jeffries Barn flocked Hollywood's upper crust, more to enjoy Belle Martell's entr'acte gags-picked up during 20 years of vaudeville trouping-than the bouts themselves. Four years ago, when Husband Martell was hired to promote the Los Angeles Athletic Club's boxing shows at the Olympic Auditorium, Mrs. Martell not only helped with promotion but promptly got an announcer's license, later a timekeeper's license-first ever issued to a woman. Last week, in the State examination for referees. Intruder Martell got 97½. a higher mark than...
North Woodstock, N. H.: good snow with two inches powder over ten inches with a breakable crust...
Saint Sauvere, Can.: good skiing conditions, breakable crust...