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...mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice, and he learned to be a scientist from his pal Limo, the Liverpool sailor who jumped ship with him the first time in Vera Cruz. "This Limo wasn't very tall, but he was quite active and strong and full of hell when ashore. One of his front teeth was gone and there was something like a little brad...
...Towne returned to Portsmouth, a bravo who could safely thumb his nose at civil authority, could even sell some pictures. Beauteous, snobbish Elizabeth, long out of his reach, began to bend towards him. Then came great Major Rogers himself, to be lionized. He treated Langdon bluffly as an old pal-and took his girl away from him. Langdon, heartbroken, sailed for London to learn more about painting. There,.four years later, he met Rogers again, still a great man but with the cracks beginning to show. Rogers was full of a scheme to find the Northwest Passage, will...
...wide musical competition, but the elder boy arouses the ire of the professor through a prank and is banished from the studio. In a grim and gloomy mood at his misfortune, he composes an original cadenza to Beethoven's concerto which is such a masterpiece that when his younger pal plays it in the competition finals, both are justly acclaimed as the coming miracle men of music...
Allen was a young rebel. He wanted to shatter conservative midwestern Jordanstown to bits, fit the pieces to a humaner pattern. So did his pal Dave. When Allen scraped together enough money to buy the local paper he proceeded to set the town on its ear. Subscriptions fell off but needy friends rallied to Allen's cause. Jordanstown's bosses dropped Allen a hint to mind his manners, but he went right ahead. Climax of his crusade was a parade of the underdogs, led by Dave and Allen, to the new meeting house built by painful comradely effort...
...spirit of Humor is not entirely dead in the Yard. One daring fellow last evening placed his pal's derby on the pavement and full of evil glee hid himself behind a tree. Soon a nice, bespectacled, becaned, bespatted gentleman came along, picked up the hat and returned to the prankster who showed the polite gratitude the occasion deserved. Having replaced the headgear, the daring fellow turned to light a cigarette. On looking again a moment later the hat had disappeared. And that ended that for another year...