Word: list
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After dinner Sergeant Eugene List of the U.S. Army preceded Truman at the piano. List's father was the best dancer in his part of Russia; people miles away asked him to dance at weddings and christenings. But he never got to dance for a tsar...
Should the committee's warning be translated into practice, there will be no lack of aspirants to fill the vacancies. The club's waiting list is so long many candidates reach the grave without attaining the Athenaeum...
...Brick Fleagle organized his 16-man club after commercial bands rejected many of his arrangements as too hot to handle. Today the band has a "book" of 50 compositions, 48 of them by Brick (Fried Piper, Frost on the Moon, Swamp Mist, etc.). It also has a waiting list of about fifty musicians...
More important, it has a long waiting list of wholesaler tenants who want to sit in on the Mart's 400,000-a-year retail-buyer traffic. From the Kennedy point of view, the deal was a thumping bargain...
...most men. He absorbed and reveled in it as his vital element. With passionate volubility and in sinewy prose, he brought it vividly alive for more short sighted mortals. He fought for it, hard and successfully, against the invasion of commercialism. Emerson named the bearded Scot in his private list of "My Men." His most notable victory was the long, touch-& -go battle for the conservation of Yosemite Valley. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have seen his best monument: the national parks...