Word: harriet
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Moonlight Bay and Shine On, Harvest Moon, tinkled on pianolas or wheezed through the gaping morning-glory horns of pristine phonographs, are powerless to give conviction or pathos to the story of loyal Sally's heartbreak or Angel Raft's dalliance with the snobbish Nob Hill hussy, Harriet Carruthers (Joan Ben-nett...
Latin & Cock Feathers. Son of a Cornish doctor, grandson of famed Cornish Ichthyologist Jonathan Couch (History of the Fishes of the British Islands), Q received his first Latin at the age of seven ("I went home as one baptized into a cult"), in the Misses Harriet and Jemina Lutman's seminary, or "dame school." These "excellent ladies" also taught him Euclid and "globes," introduced him to Reading without Tears and Little Arthur's History of England. He learned by heart the questions & answers in the 48th edition of The Child's Guide to Knowledge, by a Lady...
Robert Karplus-Harriet Corbin (Jackson...
Radcliffe: Jane Driscoll, stroke; Dorothy Driscoll, 7; Marcia Zacherer, 6; Patricia Baker, 5; Eleanor Merrick, 4; Katherine Fuller, 3; Irene Gitson, 2; Louise Florencourt, bow; Peta Lewis or Harriet Clark...
Walter Winchell breathlessly reported that Helen Hayes's cast in Harriet had been given poor hotel accommodations and quoted her: "Argentina, which declared war against the Axis at the last minute, gets swanky suites for her delegates. But some of us in the show who have been fighting Axis supporters over here are being put out of hotels." The San Francisco Chronicle drily reminded Winchell and Miss Hayes that Argentina had not been invited to San Francisco. The unabashable Winchell was off on another rumor. He persuaded Hearst's Examiner to by-line his prediction that the conference...