Word: earling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used to be Earl Grey and china dolls in mid-afternoon. Now it's capuccino and conversation, midnight at Cafe Algiers...
...order. I usually get tea--Earl Grey with milk and honey. But tonight demands coffee, strong and dark. With only a little cream. It's psychological, not the caffeine. The cups at Pamplona are heavy, my energy is absorbed in the act of drinking. Our conversation is frantic, fueled by nervous energy and lack of sleep...
...upbeat, sometimes preachy tone of the series has annoyed some. "Bill seemed to want the family to be good, and to me, good isn't funny," says Earl Pomerantz, head writer for the show's first eight episodes. Others complain that the series slipped a bit last season, with some segments being especially flimsy and plotless. A few critics have raised more substantive issues. One charge is that the well-to-do Huxtables are hardly representative of the vast majority of black families in this country. (Or many white ones, for that matter; no problem with child care in this...
...covering Earl Long's last race for Governor, the great A.J. Liebling wrote, "Politics is to the conversation of Louisiana what horse racing is to England's. In London, anyone from the Queen to a dustman will talk horses; in Louisiana, anyone from a society woman to a bellhop will talk + politics. Louisiana politics is of an intensity and complexity that are matched, in my experience, only in the republic of Lebanon." 1959 was the year Sam was working for Jimmie Davis, who wrote You Are My Sunshine and whose motto was "I Never Done Nobody No Harm...
Certainly the Pope has lost little of his personal impact. "People seem touched, enriched in some intangible way by the Pope's presence," observed Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio. One of the AIDS patients in the San Francisco congregation, Earl McLeod, thought that the gay demonstrators outside would have felt differently had they seen John Paul close up. "If they had heard what I heard," he said, "they would not be protesting...