Word: joiner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...went to Princeton (Class of 1888), then into the ministry by way of Union Theological Seminary. When he was about 30, his father summoned him to learn the family business, but his deep religious feeling has found outlets in innumerable charities and philanthropies. Cultured, musical, humorous, an inveterate joiner, he lives half the year in a big mansion on Manhattan's East 66th Street, half the year on an estate in Sea Bright...
...Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress, nay, what silkworm it was that worked upon the bedcovers...
...priests, journeyed last week to Vatican City. Not in years of Cook's Tours had the Romans seen so many Inglesi at one time-in all, 7,000 pilgrims, at whose head was no less a personage than Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, 70, the son of a Yorkshire joiner, who last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What brought Archbishop Hinsley and his flock to Rome was the impending canonization of Sir Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher, first Englishmen in years to attain to sainthood...
Columbus Marion ("Dad") Joiner was in a Dallas court last week. His divorced wife was suing for a one-half interest in his $3,000,000 fortune. A 74-year-old wildcatter, "Dad" Joiner has been in courts for the better part of the last four years, not because of marital difficulties but because he was the man who brought in the first well in the second greatest oil pool in the world-the East Texas Field.* Dad Joiner has been at it since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became...
...manhood of every one of its members." These two more or less general and philosophical ideas are tied down by the able Mr. Leach, and are constrained most convincingly to apply to the needs and trends of the moments. Essentially, the argument involves the Menckenian attack on the "joiner," but it employs this jeremiad in a gentler, more discursive, and more appealing way; it is a bit of comment apt and in good taste...