Word: foule
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...repainted a clear cream color. But the Old Howard with its translucent stench rising to a few few above the sea level on the ground floor is changing its cosmetics, not its complexion. This week as every week the stage show deals a knock-out punch--a foul jab strictly below the belt. Rumor for years has claimed that the chorus of 30 beauties 30 is recruited from rheumatic jitterbugs on the list of retired University employees, but no one goes to see the chorus anyhow, It's the blue-lighted anatomical solos which bring the crowds past...
Harvard couldn't seem to get going as the second half started, and the Ithacans soon forget ahead 22 to 21. Ed Buckley nipped their chances by tying it up with a foul shot, which caused Cornell the loss of their second high scorer, Howie Dunbar...
With eight minutes to go, Captain Franny Simpson's forces started the rally which eventually won the game. Ed Rothschild sunk a couple of foul shots, while Romano, Scully, and Buckley added to the Crimson total...
...Princeton had done very well in earlier contests against formidable non-league opposition in the East and Middle West. There is no thought around the league of under-estimating the Tigers, however. From the floor, Princeton outscored Yale, but unusual accuracy on the part of the Elis from the foul-line, coupled with less than indifferent success by the Princetonians in the same department, provided Yale with its winning margin. Busse, Winston, Captain Dan Carmichael and Bartlett all scored well from the floor for the Tigers and showed an offensive balance to indicate that Princeton still must be considered...
...Attic, Fables for Our Time), smelling of neurosis, manic depression and similar 20th-Century ills. Collier offers a fuller-blooded evil often conjured up with appropriate 17th-Century English suggesting the grimmer scenes of King Lear. From that play he plucked titles for two former books: Defy the Foul Fiend and Tom's Acold. Author Collier, 39, has hitherto rusticated in Hampshire, England, now finds Virginia more suited for the cultivation of prose, verse and prize-winning flowers. But the label "whimsy" withers within ten feet of his pungent, multifoliate fancies...