Word: droop
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While the British Parliament opened and argued, His Majesty the King-Emperor returned in triumph to London. Still wan and droop-shouldered, King George motored from Windsor to sooty Albert Hall, opposite Kensington Gardens. There state landaus and a squadron of gleaming, clanking life guards awaited him. Smiling happily, with a white tea rose on the lapel of his impeccable morning coat, he entered the first carriage with Queen Mary, regal as ever in a gold colored coat and fur-trimmed hat. Through Hyde Park, down Piccadilly the procession trotted, past cheering crowds...
...Duncan seven up and five to go. The U. S. won two matches, dropped one, tied another. By lunchtime the next day, British golf enthusiasts were jubilant. The British team was leading in four matches, three were tied, and only Leo Diegel of the U. S. was ahead. Sleek, droop-jowled Walter Hagen, British open champion and captain of the U. S. team, and Britain's cadaverous Captain George Duncan, had halved eight out of the first nine holes. Then Duncan had gone ahead to a five-hole lead. "Sure, I'll win. I always...
...sing some of her songs, was a 16-year-old shopgirl when a group of Chicago admirers bought her a ticket to Montreal where she won $1,000 in a beauty contest. Later, in the cast of George White's Scandals, she began to sing songs sitting, droop-lipped, on a piano; then in Americana, then in her own night club, she climbed from the piano-top to success. When Miami persuaded Universal to hold the film premiere of Show Boat in its town instead of Palm Beach last month, Helen Morgan went by plane from Manhattan to climb...
...gubernatorial candidate the choice was an able, amiable little Jew who now occupies an office across the hall from Governor Smith at Albany-Attorney-General Albert Ottinger. For its senatorial candidate the party looked far aloof and picked out no less a personage than droop-lidded, bespectacled Alanson Bigelow Houghton, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, famed debunker of hands-across-the-sea, prosperous glassmaker of Corning, N. Y. Mr. Houghton, in London, accepted the nomination, started home...
Author Marshall has contrived a credible and moving history of an idealist who pursued other phantoms than those chased by big businessmen and shady politicians in the late years of the last century, but he has allowed his selective faculty to droop. There is divagation, fumbling with incidents and words. Force penetrates these defects; in spite of them the story progresses, with power but without smoothness, like an ore truck with one square wheel...