Word: kentish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...along Britain's Kentish coast. The 80-foot, dragon-prowed Viking-style Hugin* was beached, and from it poured 53 warriors with knives between their teeth and spears in their hands. Several of the invaders wore horn-rimmed spectacles under their horned helmets; all had month-old beards. None of the 50,000 waiting Britons ran away...
...Goodwins did not always feed on misery. Once they were fertile land known to the Kentish peasants as Lomea (The Low Island), and belonged to Earl Godwine, friend of Edward the Confessor. One legend says that Godwine, hard-pressed by his enemies, vowed to the Virgin that if he got back to Lomea he would build a steeple to Tenterden Church; when he escaped he forgot the vow. Another version: that the Abbot of Canterbury built the steeple from money intended for the island's dikes...
...British prison commissioner, Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise, visited a model U.S. reformatory in 1902, he first became convinced that a bad apple can spoil a barrel. Back in England, he yanked some young offenders out of the regular prisons, moved them away from the older, rottener apples to a Kentish village called Borstal. There he began an experiment in straightening out youngsters gone wrong. Its basic idea: "the gospel of work...
Winter lay ahead, but autumn lingered. In a Kentish garden figs ripened, scores of Red Admiral butterflies swarmed over beds of chrysanthemums. Beneath clean-picked apple trees strawberries bloomed again. Farmers harvested late crops as daffodils poked their shoots out of the soil. The season was just a little queer. ¶ London's overworked bus conductors and conductresses (clippies) decided to enforce a "no standing" rule during rush hours. Clerks and M.P.s trudged to work, tempers flared. Goaded by a bossy clippie, 60 medical students shooed her off her own bus while they sang "Oh, why are we waiting...
Funnyman Perelman finds endless inspiration in the vagaries of U.S. advertising. In Tomorrow-Fairly Cloudy he exhorts: "Remember that . . . 500 empty tobacco tins . . . and a 50-word essay on 'Early Kentish Brass Rubbings' entitle you to the Pocahontas Mixture vacation offer, whereby you retire at sixty with most of your faculties impaired." He tells how a Mr. Bradley was drowned in his cellar with his wife and family ("I should have specified Sumwenco Super-Annealed Brass Pipe throughout [but] at least . . . under the Central American Mutual Perpetual Amortizational Group Insurance Plan our loved ones need not be reduced...