Word: leaden
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...visitors saw a 9 by 9 by 16 in. leaden casket, graven with abbreviations unmistakably referring to "Cristoval Colon, Almirante" (see cut). Inside it when last opened were once-human bone & dust, a bullet presumably fired into Columbus during some fracas before he sailed for the New World...
...Basilica committed Pius XI to his God with the same prayers chanted for humble sinners. Thirty-seven Cardinals gazed for the last time at the Pope's shrunken visage, then descended to St. Peter's crypt while workmen fastened down the wooden coffin-lids, soldered the leaden one. (They ran out of solder, held up the tumulation until more was found.) Finally the 1,000-lb. coffin was lowered into the crypt with block-&-tackle, fitted into a niche while the Cardinals prayed silently...
...Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...last event, the 11 contestants duelled with pistols. Two by two, they marched away from their paper effigies and at ten paces turned and fired, the one at the heart of the other's figure. Hall sent five leaden pellets through the carboard heart of Hinckley's model in the final thereby winning the meet...
...result, the atmosphere because so leaden that all occupants of the dormitory, including the pranksters themselves, were forced to flee...