Word: monarchal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Satchel has blinding speed, marvelous control, and, unlike most white flingers, he is a prodigious hitter. His team is the Travelers, a roving division of the Kansas City Monarchs which, like the white and bearded House of David baseballers, barnstorms, taking on all comers. Last week Monarch's Travelers played the Mobile Black Shippers. Satchel unlimbered his fearful right arm, planted his size 12's on the mound, blazed away for three innings. He faced only eleven batters, pitched only nine balls, fanned four, yielded one measly scratch hit. It was a typical Paige show and the dusky...
Thinking of the sorrows he had already borne-following first his father's coffin (1934) and the next year his young wife's -other nations wondered what his reward for being a model modern monarch would be-whether Belgium would be saved from the Nazi juggernaut or go down to bloody defeat and national extinction. If the former, he could thank his Allies. If the latter, it would be chiefly because King Leopold, gentleman and sportsman, was (like most Western World democrats) unconditioned to survive in a world containing Adolf Hitler...
...Marseilles citizen army. Without an excessive amount of flag-waving, it waxes enthusiastic over the fraternal movement, as it colorfully depicts the march to Paris and the storming of the Tuileries. Louis XVI is portrayed not as a Hollywood caricature of an egotistical sot, but as the gourmandish monarch he was, with his glimmerings of intelligence and his fatal irresolution in times of crisis. Compact and clear-cut, the entire narrative is spiced with Gallic humor and fragments of eighteenth-century music...
Burt ("Cold-rolled" to his employes) was telling customers they would have to wait their turns. Since the industry has a wholesome fear of overexpansion, many a plant-like Monarch, Sundstrand, Van Norman, Ex-Cell-0-told purchasers that their wait might be a year or more...
...Italian monarch agreed that the Rome-Berlin axis should be dissolved...