Search Details

Word: dobbin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...search of Commander Clark's own flagship, the Concord, and of the destroyer Sands and the repair ship Dobbin, discovered four more baggages. They said they were Billy Lacer, Rose McQuire, Flossie Rice, Ramilda Avery, "waitresses from Philadelphia." They had been sneaked aboard at New Orleans. Commander Clark led his ships into Key West. The waitresses were disembarked. Courts martial began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: On Every Ship | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...Department of the Interior published a report by Geologists C. E. Dobbin, V. H. Barnett and W. T. Thom Jr. of the U. S. Geological Survey. They said that the 75-foot coal seams near Minturn, Wyo., are only part of huge system of seams embracing Campbell, Crook, Weston, Toniobrara and Converse Counties, which contain some 14 billion tons. Some 17.8 billion tons is the U. S. coal mining total to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 14 Billion Tons | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Take Rover a-romping, ride Dobbin...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE CRIME | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wooing Song | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...hitch old Dobbin to the shay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Ferguson Out | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Next