Word: cumberlandism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...carefully selected by Mr. Frank Reilly whom the program also credits with the imposing task of collaborating on, producing, and costuming the play, and it more than justifies its choice. The very attitudes and gestures are reminiscent of the Phiz illustrations. Particular laurels and bays are due to Mr. Cumberland for a fine, well-rounded Pickwick; to Mr. McNaughton for his tireless Sam Weller, a rich part richly played; and to Mr. Miller for his melodramatic Alfred Jingle. The ladies are adequate and pleasant to look upon, but are necessarly subordinated to the gallant masculinity of the Pickwick Club...
...Sheriff L. L. Ellis, borrowed his keys. Back in the cells, a voice screamed in prayer. It was Herbert ("Rip") Bell, 30-year-old Negro, charged with beating to death one Rufus Joiner, white farmer. The Negro stopped praying as they ferried him and the sheriff across the broad Cumberland river. On the far bank a throng of hillbillies waited, still and serious. Leaving Sheriff Ellis, they all went into the back country, about ten miles. Next day Dover was quiet and Sheriff Ellis went into the back country to investigate. It shocked him to see flies around the bullet...
...Hutchinson's school days were spent at Gresham's School, Holt, a few miles from the Norfolk coast, and his holidays in Cumberland amongst the lakes. In such ideal surroundings it is hard to conceive where he learnt Socialism, but a Socialist he is; the fact constantly appears in his speeches and conversation. He is always running away on a bicycle or in a Ford to address mass meetings in the Midlands, or to stir up the lazy villagers of Cambridgeshire to take a greater interest in the running of their country...
...tears of joy in the eyes of Mr. Langley, who was composing a telegram to his darling, Spouse Langley. His words flowed like a dream in the Vale of Tempe: "I am supremely happy. Even these grey prison walls seem to shine with the lustre of our beloved Cumberland and Blue Ridge. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. May He bless and keep always the good men and women and all our children of the Kentucky Mountains. My love and greetings to the first Congresswoman of the old commonwealth." There...
...stock of some score and a half of subsidiary and affiliated concerns: New England T. & T., Southern New England Tel., New York Tel., Bell Telephone of Pa., Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. (N. Y.), Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. of Baltimore, Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. of Va., Chesapeake & Potomac of W. Va., Cumberland T. & T., Ohio Bell, Cincinnati & Suburban Bell (29%) Michigan Bell, Indiana Bell, Wisconsin Tel., Illinois Bell, Northwestern Bell, Southwestern Bell, Mountain States T. & T., Pacific T. & T., Bell Tel. Laboratories, Bell Tel. Securities, Bell Tel. of Canada, Central Union Tel., Cuban-American T. & T., Western Electric (almost exclusive manufacturing agent), 195 Broadway...