Word: frees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...roads with easy gradients should be built over the Pyrenees, but not one was ever more than well begun. The grades on the new Samport railway are too steep for trains ever to be served by steam locomotives but the giant electrics which have been installed are operated by free power shrewdly filched by turbines from tumbling Pyrenean waterfalls and foaming streams...
...Olympics started, last fortnight, it was the Detroit Free Press which proudly hailed Detroit as THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. But last week the Detroit News broke with its contemporary, conquered local pride, generously yielded the palm to Cleveland. Said the News, editorially: "Cleveland's foresight has brought its own reward. The landing field is being hailed as 'the world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin...
...practice of serving free tea in department stores is winning customers in Brooklyn, making big tips for waitresses...
...convention the delegates visited "Cranbrook," the manorial estate of famed publisher George G. Booth. There, in a sweltering heat, they admired the cool lawns, the shade under the trees, the pellucid depths of a large swimming pool. On the next evening, as guests of the Detroit Free Press, News & Times, the advertising men enjoyed an almost miraculous party...
...GOBBLER OF GOD-Percy MacKaye -Longmans Green ($2.00). In prose, this folktale might well have been a catalog of horrors, but Southern mountaineers' dialect done into cadenced free verse makes of it a fascinating fable, moral and all. With three wedding presents-a silver ring, a goose feather pillow, and a little black slave for luckpenny-MacKnight rides over the hills from Ca'liny to claim proud Margery, his bride. This copper-haired beauty has eight brothers who kill the little black slave for her dance orgies with the Gobbler. Luckpenny dead, MacKnight and his delectable bride...