Word: holland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...conventional knowledge of Peter is that he cut off priests beards with a stout pair of shears, and that he spent his youth in Holland building boats by day and breaking windows by night. This is all very true and very salty, but there is more. The Vagabond likes to think of Peter as a man of gargantuan size who walks unceasingly with enormous strides through a broad land of Stigian darkness, carrying in his right hand a half burnt match. This is a pretty portrait, but it would never do in a blue book. Tomorrow Mr. Vernadsky will talk...
...Doom, Holland, last week, Germany's whilom All Highest War Lord, Wilhelm II, spread staff maps of Manchuria on long tables and had fun sticking them with colored pushpins. It was like old times...
...both have had to meet keen foreign competition from Holland and France, and face abnormal mortality among our oysters owing to disease, the origin and cause of which remain obscure. It has been my experience that the slipper limpet is the worst enemy preying on my oysters and I understand that 4,000 tons of these pests have been removed from the River Colne in the past five years...
...Protestant Episcopal Church of the Atonement at Madison Avenue & 28th Street in Manhattan. One of them (though Mr. Sabine did not recognize him) was the great Joseph Jefferson, who had been playing Rip Van Winkle since 1859 in various versions. He explained that his old friend George Holland had died; this was Mr. Holland's son Edward; they wished to arrange for the funeral. Then he added that Mr. Holland had been a well-known oldtime actor. Mr. Sabine's expression changed. Hesitantly he said that he was sorry, he could bury no actor from the Church...
...bearded, he was a pronounced Anglo-Catholic, a follower of the Oxford Movement. Only once, in his youth, had he attended a theatre (to his death he never saw Actor Jefferson on the stage). But he had performed funerals for actors. He agreed readily to do so for Actor Holland. The Press heard of the incident, amplified it. Out of the welter of discussion which ensued throughout the U. S., there emerged the name & fame of The Little Church Around the Corner. To celebrate it and tell its history there was published last fortnight an elegantly bound and printed volume...