Word: parents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are many grains of sand in an hourglass and they fall singly, but eventually the hour is passed. So with the hour of crossword puzzles. Last week, the Daily News (Manhattan), following its parent, The Chicago Tribune (TIME, July 6), ceased publishing the little gems of geometric delight...
...brother, William J. (born in 1861). The citizens of Rochester generally agreed that young Charles was the least "impressive" of the three Mayos. Perhaps his appearance prejudiced, for he was not genial. No ruddy jester was he, with a nervous eyelid and a midwifian ribaldry to cheer the anxious parent in her distress. Far from it. William J. was a spot that way, but Charles was a doleful fellow, "with a face pulled out of tallow." That was a long time ago. Last year, at the Democratic Convention in Manhattan, Charles Horace Mayo was loudly mentioned (though his name...
...floor. They had no apparent purpose and blew endless streams of bubbles as they went. Each monster stared about him through one enormous glassy eye. To their heads were attached trailing rubbery tubes like skeins of attenuated umbilical cords, stretching down to them through the sea from an unknowable parent whose broad bulk rocked gently. For long periods, the monsters would sit motionless on brilliant mushrooms of coral, letting light-obscuring shoals of fish swim over and about them. If an inquisitive shark or surly moray sidled up, the monsters shuffled silently over to a cage near by, entered, fastened...
...play poker, you may recognize yourself. If you cannot bear the game, it is at least valuable to know that there are 2,598,960 poker hands to an honest 52-card deck; that a royal straight flush can occur but once in 649,746 hands; that the parent stem of Poker is that ancient Persian pastime, As Nas. With the book come rules, advice against Greeks*, a set of chips...
...lily grows. What if a commercial scheme was parent to a national Mothers' Day? Last week, at Washington, D. C., Mme. Schumann-Heink, famed contralto, sent the notes of The Star Spangled Banner and Taps tingling down the spines of many bereaved mothers and a host of delegates to the International Council of Women (see above), as they all stood bowed before wreath-strewn soldier graves in Arlington Cemetery...