Word: louie
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Many of these young propagandists adopted the cartoonist's and caricaturist's method. A sixth-grader conceived Japan as a silkworm just fallen off a mulberry leaf (entitled He Overate!); one Chune Fook did a heart-rending distortion of two famine victims. Judged best was Ernest Louie's deadly earnest, broad-stroked water color of a Chinese family fleeing in terror from a bombed village. Ernest, a 16-year-old Clevelander, reads the papers...
...prospered as a goat rancher when a 34? a Ib. tariff began keeping out Turkish and South African mohair. At one time he owned a goat ranch twice as large as Rhode Island. At his death a few years ago, Louis Schreiner -known to Texas goat herders as "Mr. Louie"-succeeded to his father's goats. Few Texas Angoras have not been fed or financed with Schreiner money. Kerrville, in the heart of the goat country, is a Schreiner town. If any rancher wants to raise goats Mr. Louie's bank will give him credit, Mr. Louie...
Helped by a crook named Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh), he enters a jewelry store, heaps all the clocks in one corner, then lets the burglar alarm function. When the Ranger guards arrive, the clocks are all crying "Cuckoo!" Next Mallory opens all the umbrellas in an umbrella shop, does similar whimsies in a dozen other Ranger-guarded stores. Nowhere does he steal anything, but always leaves a note signed "Night Key," reading: "What I create I can destroy." These extraordinary pranks draw the attention of gangsters who kidnap the old man, use his device for stealing. With the help...
...Like Louie Hill's whiskers it's a beautiful...
...German janitor who once worked in a Columbia University fraternity house. Lou got a scholarship at Columbia when the fraternity house manager, who had become Columbia's Athletic Director, recognized Mr. Gehrig in the crowd at a high school football game in which little Louie was performing. Yankee scouts spotted him when he was still in college. On June 1, 1925, he replaced Walter Pipp at first base. From then through last week's games, Gehrig has not been out of the Yankee lineup for a single day. When he started a string of consecutive games played which...