Word: kew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...high spots of the play include: An opening scene in which Senator Cassius Clayborn and his bootlegger are disclosed drinking gin behind the locked door of his office. The Senator is up for reelection. The Reverend Dr. Kew-back, an ardent dry, comes to his office and threatens to ruin his chances by publishing a story about a trip which his daughter made to Atlantic City with her fiance, an attache of the British Legation, unless the Senator will vote a large appropriation for Prohibition enforcement. They also argue over Prohibition. The Senator thrusts the Prohibition Bible (in which "raisin...
William Arthur Force 3d. of Kew Gardens, Long Island, New York, was yesterday elected captain of the Freshman la-crosse team. Force prepared for Harvard at Bordentown Military Academy, at Bordentown...
...nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows that from Cape Chidley itself, even on the Island, to the most southern boundary of Labrador on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, caribou, which are the same as reindeer...