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...Cabinet worried over Generalissimo Franco's blockade, the captains, three of whom were named Jones, and their cargoes of spoiling food remained marooned in the French harbor of Saint-Jean-de-Luz. First to catch the public eye was Captain David ("Potato") Jones, part-owner of the Marie Llewellyn and nicknamed for his cargo. Roaring, "Has our Navy lost its guts?" Potato Jones put out to sea to run the blockade unprotected, to find himself hailed as a hero by British sentimentalists (TIME, April 26). Changing his course at sea, Potato Jones last week was heading not for Bilbao...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Welsh Basques | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...world, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Story of a Story | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...stymied British freighters were named Jones. A consular clerk speeded matters considerably by naming them after their respective cargoes: Potato Jones, Ham & Egg Jones, Corn Cob Jones. Bravest of the lot, because he is part owner of his ship, was Captain David (Potato) Jones of the Marie Llewellyn. Attempting to run the blockade, he nearly ran down the British destroyer Brazen, was shepherded back to port where his cargo began to spoil. Finally, purple with rage, spewing rotten potatoes behind him, Captain Jones put out to sea again, officially to return to Britain. All the other Joneses wagered he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Potato Toasted | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

Discovery of a new bed of ancient fossils in southern Brazil has proved a great step forward for the expedition of Llewellyn I. Price and Theodore E. White of the Museum of Comparative Zoology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rich Brazil Fossil Bed Reveals Many Hitherto Unknown Triassic Monsters | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

...narrow scope of merely laughing at the great, defenseless, adolescent industry. There is a Ramone Ramon (pronounced Ramone Ramone, John C. Develin, '38), who is instrumental in a complete collegiate flop along the lines of the complete collegiate flops with which Hollywood periodically inflicts us. There is also a Llewellyn Flushingale, producer (Benjamin F. Dillingham, '39), who is as poetically illiterate, as pompously ignorant, and as, madly lavish, as movie producers are commonly known to be. But this is only a beginning. Somebody is made to ask, "Who is Franklin Roosevelt? Chief Justice?" and there you have a sample...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 3/31/1937 | See Source »

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