Word: joes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paso, Tex., Joe Parelli and Billy Hallas, wrestlers of unimportance, climbed into a ring, each prepared to force his opponent's clavicles to the mat. Scuffling for a hold, the two grunters permitted their respective skulls to collide with great force. Unconscious - "even for wrestlers," as able Sports Writer McGeehan put it- both fell and lay where they had fallen. The referee was puzzled; noted that Hallas was resting on his back; Parelli on his side; proclaimed the comatose Parelli winner...
...stories, of which there are many in both prose and veree--Hiawatha's Bowling, Joe Slow, the Boy Inventor. The Little Girl and the Kind Ogre, Jack the Giant Spiller, How Brother Rabbit Cleared the Yard, Archibald and the Surly Dragon, The Naughty Boy and the Vengeful Peauut--are all neat little yarns in themselves, and at the same time sly parodies of the plots, characters, and narrative manner of fairy tales...
...horse lay on the boulevard, dead. My automobile burst into flames. I leaped out with a shout: 'Never mind about the fire in the car; let's get this man to the hospital. We can buy 20 cars, but we can't buy another Joe [my chauffeur].' . . . Joe and the two in the milk wagon soon recovered from minor injuries. My car burned to the ground...
Most of the leading men in the graduating class made up part of the chorus. Daley, Haggerty, Coady, Miller, Sayles and other prominent bearers of the Crimson on many a past athletic field adding a lusty strain to the music Joe Duble also lent his mellifluous tenor to the football songs and old favorites, and for a while Bob Lampoon, noted piccolo player, supported the experiment with the weight of his musical genius...
Peddlers used to be called "Bible Leaf Joe," "Dew Drop," "Johnny Cup o' Tea," "Leather Breeches," "Dutch Molly," "Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body...