Word: howlings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hillbilly Boom. At last count, 121 hillbillies were dancing, singing and strumming on Jubilee, ambitious youngsters were washing dishes, waiting for their chance to howl their way to success, and Springfield had become accustomed to high-heeled guitar players breezing around town in expensive cars. Jubilee executives figure that they will squeeze about $2,500,000 out of country music this year...
Somewhere in the auditorium there was a wolf howl. Then down the aisles, feet thumping the wooden floor, bounded five men. They dashed past rows of seated spectators, crossed the ten feet between front row and stage and jumped the four-foot parapet. One swung on Cole and sent him reeling onto the piano bench, which split under...
...Politicians. Founder Uchimura, born to a samurai family in 1861, was introduced to Christianity at twelve, when a Tokyo schoolmate invited him "to a certain place in the foreigners' quarter, where we can hear pretty women sing and a tall, big man with a long beard shout and howl upon an elevated place, flinging his arms and twisting his body in all fantastic manners, to all of which admittance is entirely free." Later, at an American-founded agricultural school...
...class . . . four to six to a cabin." The New York Post's Earl Wilson wrote that five reporters had canceled their bookings in a huff. Uneasily the line admitted that Grace had indeed requested that a way be found to keep newsmen at a distance. But when the howl went up, she relented. The compromise: there wil be two press conferences aboard ship Reporters will bunk four to a room in cabin class because of the crush, but will have first-class privileges...
...seems to be pretty statistical-minded when it comes to the U.S. farmer and his howl. Our receipts are up but our operating expenses are up also. How can we buy the items needed and economize? We can -by working 18 hours a day, as many do who show the 11% profit, and use 12-and 13-year-old children to work as unpaid labor. Your city labor is working for shorter hours. Mr. Benson tells the farmer to work longer hours for less hourly wage. The farm situation is dangerous because the farmer and his family are damn...