Word: petites
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said one of the professors, M. Petit...
First race. Miguel Barella, captain of the Spanish team, failed to get his motor going in time to start. Britain's Joseph C. Turner, who smokes a pipe while driving, saw his flywheel jump overboard. France's Jeari Dupuy (Petit Parisien) hit a buoy. Horace Tennes, 21-year-old Northwestern undergraduate, driving his Hootnanny VI won at 52.6 m.p.h., three seconds ahead of the other collegian on the U. S. team, Philip Ellsworth of Bucknell, a mile ahead of the rest of the field...
...Prefect of Police he became the complete boulevardier. From his little office on the Ile de la Cité with its hideous blue wallpaper he started a slashing campaign against reckless taxi drivers and the vendors of filthy pictures. He calls everyone either mon petit or mon enfant, wears made-to-order shoes with two-inch heels and has won the adoration of the uniformed force. He has also become very rich, owns a chateau and a racing stable...
...Congress could end the experiments of President Roosevelt," said the Petit Parisien, also of the Premier's faction, ''but American statesmen are not distinguished for courage...
...petit-point canap...