Word: mends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fairly prominent London friends of Reader Dreiman mend their talk. Surviving children of Their Britannic Majesties are the Prince of Wales (aged 38); the Duke of York (36); the Duke of Gloucester (32); Prince George (29) and the Princess Royal (35). The late Prince John, born to Her Majesty in 1905. was subject not to haemophilia but to epileptic fits, succumbed in 1919. Their Majesties had no seventh child...
...climax when Miss Dove intentionally lets slip Miss Davies' hand during a revolving ballet number. Miss Davies breaks a leg. After a farewell party at which she gets her mother intoxicated, she returns to the East Side. Montgomery finally appears with 1) four specialists who promise they can mend the broken limb and 2) a proposal of marriage. Through the picture flows bottle upon bottle of chilled champagne...
Because the iris is so fragile a fabric of vessels, nerves and muscles, it is difficult to hold the sutures with which an eye surgeon might attempt to mend a tear. Ordinarily the surgeon contents himself with cutting off the loosened bits of iris and guarding the eye against infection. This leaves the pupil a jagged hole, which is more fascinating than ugly...
...neighborhood ... and that verbal attacks from her had made life miserable for the residents. Her actions made life miserable during the night as well as during the day. for she did not cease even when darkness came." Catherine Cairns was arrested as a common scold, clapped in jail to mend her talk...
...important observation has to do with diet while broken bones mend. If the diet lacks the necessary salts, the broken bone draws its material from the other bones of the body, weakens them...