Word: eaten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...find thus announced last week by Dr. Julian H. Steward of the Smithsonian Institution was made in a cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake. As the water level in the lake sank, millennium after millennium, the caves around it are supposed to have been eaten out by the action of waves at the shore. The cave which yielded up Dr.Steward's fossil infant is now 365 ft. above the lake level. Yet the fact that the skeleton was imbedded in lake gravel on the cave floor indicated that the cave was inhabited soon after the water retreated...
...Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since adolescence; Gus Popolos, a Rasputin-like fanatic who wanders around in a moth-eaten bear rug, proclaims Colonel Steele the new Messiah, finally marries an outsmarted chorus girl; Moussa, a notorious Arab pickpocket, whom nobody understands except Captain Trolley; the mayor's katzenjammer son, whose snooping in Dr. Thumb's traveling bag is rewarded by a small mummified head which turns...
...unfamiliar birds. He grabbed them, lugged them to the director, demanded an explanation. They had been sitting there for 22 years because nobody had quite got around to throwing them away. He was told they were probably some kind of domestic peacock. Dr. Chapin knew better. The moth-eaten wing-feathers matched the one he had been saving for 23 years. He wrote his museum for permission to go to Africa for two months for the purpose of confirming his long standing suspicion that there was a relative of the peacock living in Africa...
...last 400 years, a mostly imaginary picture of the conquistadores who tenanted the Casa del Capuchino, a biography of the Popenoes, centring on capable Dorothy Popenoe, who supervised the main work of restoration until her death in 1932 from an attack of appendicitis, aggravated as a result of having eaten a tropical fruit (akee) being grown experimentally by her husband...
...Corn-on-the-cob may now be eaten (neatly) at a formal dinner, an entire ear in both hands. Cigarets at the dinner table are all right but Mrs. Post still does not approve...