Word: hip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gullible freshman is past. The salesmen who in the years gone by have waxed wealthy on the profits garnered from the wallets in Encina hip pockets are this year sitting in their darkened rooms, holding their heads in despair, or looking to the heavens for the mauna that once poured forth so willingly...
...Swiss army, was graduated in medicine from Zurich in 1921 at the age of 30. Three years later he became professor of medical history there. The next year he went to Leipzig, remained there until Johns Hopkins got him. He has travelled over most of the world with a hip-pocket camera. He develops his pictures in his bathroom. But his lectures are prepared to appeal to the ear. Says he: "Too many lectures read well in print and prove disappointing when read from a platform...
Last week President Hoover & friends drove out to the Rapidan camp for two days. He pulled on hip boots at once, went fishing by himself, caught twelve trout. One was 14 in. long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
...Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually it was performed by a troupe of respectable, well-clad Barnard girls. But Bishop William Thomas Manning refused to countenance Dr. Guthrie's practices, forbade any further goings-on. Dr. Guthrie stood his ground, went on giving ritual dances. In 1924 Bishop Manning ceased his episcopal visitations...
...Montgomery public by way of the Grand Theatre last night, and it further emphasized the fact that such shows cannot longer interest a leg-weary world." Twenty years ago and the public was leg weary. I am just wondering if the public hasn't finally become hip, rib, back and altogether sex weary by this time. I confess I am against the ropes. JASPER C. HUTTO Charlotte...