Word: garretful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Students attending the forum said thatmusician-lawyer Peter Garret and Tonker made thebiggest impression on them...
...procession trudges along the service road of American history, looking distinguished and wistful: George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins, George M. Dallas, William King, Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, William A. Wheeler, Levi P. Morton, Garret A. Hobart, Charles W. Fairbanks, Charles Dawes, John Nance Garner, Henry Wallace, Alben Barkley...
Football: Princeton quarterback Jason Garret was selected as the Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week. In Princeton's 31-27 victory over Brown, Garret completed 21 of 30 passes for 277 yards and threw one touchdown. He also also rushed for 32 yards on eight carries and one touchdown...Brown's Mike Geroux was named the Ivy League Sophomore of the Week. Geroux caught two touchdown passes--one going for 36 yards, the other for 44--in Brown's loss to Princeton. The sophomore had a total of five receptions for 119 yards on the day...Princeton kicker Chris...
This prototype of the self-annihilating artist seems yet another casualty of the rock culture; in fact, Thomas Chatterton perished in a London garret in 1770. Pondering the tragedy, William Wordsworth labeled him "the marvellous boy," and Samuel Johnson burbled, "It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things." Not all the appraisal was so rhapsodic. Horace Walpole called Chatterton "an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age." Genius because Chatterton's verses were so prodigious, rogue because the young poet once wrote in an archaic style, artificially...
Elections took place ten months ahead of schedule after the coalition government of Garret FitzGerald collapsed last month. The fall of the Cabinet was precipitated by FitzGerald's attempt to tackle the country's economic problems through deep cuts in social spending. Rather than accept the reductions, four ministers walked out of the coalition...