Search Details

Word: nancye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

This quality, however, is perhaps necessary to the grandeur of the total effect. Sandburg's prose is mostly direct, savored, terse, with scarcely a perfunctory or a pretentious sentence. If it had a smell it would be leaf smoke on an Illinois dirt road in November. Closely-knit to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Just how much will be required neither Nancy nor "Banker" yet knows. He will advance whatever sum is needed, Nancy's contributors will pay him back from their banks and pitchers, from collections at Belle Isle services.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

One more difficulty arose when Nancy wrote Detroit's Council for permission to build the tower. Belle Isle is a city park and playground, site of Detroit's Conservatory, scene of its summer Symphony concerts. Council President Edward J. Jefferies Jr. wanted to know who was going to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week on Belle Isle, in a clearing near the centre of the island, overlooking a lagoon, Nancy turned the first shovelful of ground for the Nancy Brown Peace Carillon. She broke the sod with a beribboned spade supplied by Publisher Scripps of the News. The ceremony was unheralded : only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

The tower will be an octagonal limestone shaft, 90 feet tall, topped by a dome. In the base will be an organ. Nancy hopes to have it ready for her sunrise service next Easter Morning, will dedicate it formally to Peace on Father's Day. Opposite the site, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bells for Nancy | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next