Word: dill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...
Army: Major General John Greer Dill, Director of Military Operations & Intelligence; Major General Walter King Venning, Director of Movements & Quartering; Colonel Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, Office of Military Operations...
Seeking Divorce. Clarence Cleveland Dill, 51, onetime (1923-35) U. S. Senator from Washington; from "General'' Rosalie Gardner Jones Dill, onetime militant New York feminist; in Spokane, Wash. Clarence Dill charged that his wife buried dogs and garbage in the backyard, refused to serve enough food to his political guests, told his friends that he was "a political coward" for declining to run for re-election...
...bedside, was sharp enough to get out of the stock-market before the 1929 crash. In search of dry air, he was carried to Egypt, Spain, then to the U. S. Southwest for good. Not since 1923 had he seen a football game with sharp-faced President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern, great ferret of endowments, great friend of Deerings. Roger died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Last week his will revealed that except for small bequests to his mother and two sisters, his entire estate of something over $7,000,000 will go to Northwestern. Bringing...
...Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...