Word: heydays
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...George & Gallows. Britain's Age of Highwaymen began to wane with the introduction of detectives by Novelist Henry Fielding, during his term as Commissioner of the Peace in London (1748-54). Yet even in their heyday, the highwaymen could seldom cheat the gallows. If not caught in the act of robbery, they were betrayed by a woman scorned or an accomplice deceived. A few of them escaped from prison (William Nevison, for instance, who hired a quack to spot him with bluing and declare him dead of the plague), but almost all were recaptured and bravely took the long...
...francs worth of bonds from the Calais-Paris express, and once took a famous Gainsborough painting from its frame in a London dealer's gallery. Operating mainly in Europe, he stayed out of reach of the Pinkertons, was imprisoned only twice for petty thefts. During Worth's heyday, he and William Pinkerton frequently met in a fashionable London bar and developed a fond respect for each other. Years later, Worth poured out to Pinkerton the true tales of his exploits...
...heyday of New Deal trustbusting, eleven years ago, the Government slapped its biggest antitrust suit on the American Petroleum Institute. It charged the A.P.I, with acting as a nerve center in a "conspiracy" by oil companies to control U.S. oil production and sales, named 22 companies and 344 subsidiaries as defendants. The tentlike charge covered so many companies that it was promptly dubbed the "Mother Hubbard" case...
Gradually, the trend of Harvard education bore away from the rigidly defined classical preparation for he ministry. Electives, introduced over a century ago, reached their heyday 50 years later when a degree could be had merely by passing 18 courses, no two of which needed to be related...
...cleverness still runs away with him occasionally, and kicks up such a dust that most bystanders can't make out what he's up to; but he is learning to keep his nag under control. Even in his irresponsible heyday candid friends sometimes said of him that his brilliance was self-defeating; his verse was lucid in flashes but never memorable. Said one critic: "His words lie dead on the page." But in his latest book he shows signs of attaining that memorable magic that only the best poets have...