Word: dell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cinders. High-school teachers lectured their pupils about it. Gas and insurance companies enclosed its circulars with their bills. Shops dressed their windows with pictures of correct attire for the occasion. Radio stations ballyhooed it. All this massed effort was to make a success of the Robin Hood Dell concerts of the Philadelphia Orchestra, which last summer ceased abruptly two weeks ahead of time, leaving a $20,000 deficit...
When, on opening night, 7,000 people filled the seats in Robin Hood Dell, gloomy Philadelphians were honestly surprised, cheered themselves hoarse at the end. Conductor was Jose Iturbi who hurried down from Manhattan, played a Beethoven-Wagner program which the musicians had chosen...
...unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk...
Arthur Oakes, Vice-President of the Class; Frank Hane, magician; F. Skiddy Von Stade, Secretary-Treasurer; Alfred LaTell and Sylvia Dell in "Bingo" from the Paradise Cafe in New York City; Bill Cunningham, sports writer on the Boston Post; Adrian O'Brien, radio singer; Bruce C. Hopper, assistant professor of Government...
...Brain Trust fame in many a Washington drawing room-the tongue of Jerome Frank. That restless young Jewish lawyer-who was a brain truster to Mayor Dever's Chicago reform administration; whose early drawing room sallies were in the homes of such Midwest literary liberals as Floyd Dell, Sherwood Anderson, Harriet Munroe; whom Communist Emma Goldman calls "Jerry"; whose shrewdness won him a place in the Manhattan law firm of Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy; whose brilliant articles on judicial psychology led him to friendship with Felix Frankfurter -was like a can of TNT dropped into a Washington drawing room...