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...audience at Los Angeles' Encino Theater was just settling back to watchShelley Winters sin in South Sea Sinner when a tuxedoed headwaiter from Ciro's marched down the center aisle. Behind him came two red-coated flunkies, ceremoniously bearing aloft a jumbo-sized shrimp cocktail. They halted and served it to a hefty customer three seats off the aisle. Then came Squab under Glass, Caesar Salad, Cherries Jubilee (in flaming brandy). By the time Erskine Johnson had eaten his way to the check ($12.65), the audience was also fed up; it chorused, "Throw...
...tang of fact: he pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through the city's sewers as the Germans finally closed in. The improbability of this archive, in the circumstances, is stressed by an introduction in which Author Hersey tries...
...days later, tall, rawboned Owner Lipton had another thought: Why not hide gold pieces in the cheese and let the public know it? When the cheese was finally sliced up and sold on Christmas Eve, Glasgow shoppers mobbed the store, bought up every crumb of Lipton's "Jumbo" in two hours...
...Tommy Lipton never forgot some of the things he learned in P. T. Barnum's U.S. In 1869, with savings of $500, he went back to Glasgow and two years later opened a store of his own. Within a decade, with the help of such publicity stunts as Jumbo the cheese, he owned more than 20 stores...
Like its hefty predecessors, jumbo-size New Directions XI is a literary junk shop where table after table full of crusty, dusty, doggedly experimental writing will discourage all but the hardiest. But those who do not mind shopping hard for their literary fare will stumble on a few things worth the eyestrain...