Word: peaches
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...William H. Felton of Cartersville, Ga., is the type of woman to whom people are always giving laudatory titles-"the outstanding woman of the South," "Georgia's Grand Old Lady," "Good Mother Felton," "Georgia's Oldtime Peach." And who can say that Mrs. Felton does not deserve them? It is true that sh? sat in the U. S. Senate for only two days in 1922, but no other woman has ever sat there as a member. It is true that other women have reached the age of 91, but how many of them rise...
Bounding kangaroos and the not yet forgotten dulcet voice of aging Dame Nellie Melba are all that "Australia" calls up in many a mind. Humans under 30 seldom consciously associate "Peach Melba" or "Toast Melba" (very thin, very brown) with the great one time singer who is the only world-famed Australian...
...Calif., from a heart attack. His work on a group of figures for the Fine Arts Building of Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) was heroically completed in bed and from a wheel chair while the sculptor was suffering from influenza and heart trouble. His casket was covered with apple and peach blossoms, instead of stiff "floral pieces." A memorial service was held in Bridges Hall of Music where the fountain, "Spanish Music," perhaps the sculptor's best known work, gives inspiration...
Congressman Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio: "Speaking before the Republican Women of Cleveland I flayed the U. S. people for being 'demoralized' where national affairs are concerned and devoting their whole attention to Bud Stillman's girl, 'Peaches'* Browning, Jack Dempsey and the world series. Said I: 'I consider calling that little hussy, "Peaches," a reflection on peach dishes or brandy, and the less said about her husband the better. There is no fool like an old fool. But let us dismiss this trivial gossip and consider subjects of importance to the nation...
...read uh magazine different then most folkses, an generally gft to the cover last which is why I mentian it last. It's uh peach, although I didn't know they hed uh Lard Anderson Bridge in lreland. I recognise thet ossifer in the boat with th' whistle. He's th' guy that bawled me out last time I wus in Cambridge. I wisht th' artist hed drawn his cars bigger...