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...Mark Twain seen the 20,000 people who milled about last week in the little town of Angels Camp, Calaveras County, Calif, he would have been astounded. Yet they were there because he once wrote a story called "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,'' which told how Jim Smiley's frog Dan'l Webster was defeated at Angels Camp when the opposition loaded it with buckshot. In 1926 Angels Campers, grateful for their town's only fame, instituted an annual International Championship Standing Broad Jump for Frogs to honor Mark Twain and to have...
...sport has grown so that there were 150 frogs assembled, of all types, all sizes. The rules allowed the owners to place their entries on a line, say "Go!", make them hop three times. Only other rule: Each frog might be shaken to insure against the traditional buckshot...
...wonder if all our English visitors must recite that carry on tale about the frogs in the cream vat and the pat of butter. Here Cosmo Hamilton repeats it (TIME, May 4). I heard that English-Aesop fable delivered during the War by an English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...
...some time, Tony Canzoneri, the frog-faced Brooklyn fighter who won the lightweight championship of the world from Al Singer, has been supposed to be washed out. Grounds for this belief: Canzoneri has dodged a return match with Billy Petrolic of Fargo, N. Dak., who gave Canzoneri a good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started...
Arbiter & Wit. At about this time Lord Birkenhead delivered his memorable knife thrust at the late Viscount Younger of Leckie (then Sir George Younger) who fancied himself for the Prime Ministry. "Since the day when the proverbial frog swelled itself up in rivalry with the bull until it burst," he said in part, "no frog ever has been in such grave physical danger as Sir George Younger." Of the Bonar Law Cabinet in 1923 Lord Birkenhead said: "They remind me of the Duke of Wellington's observation upon his generals: 'I don't know whether they will frighten the enemy...