Word: plumingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bills enacted by the Mother of Parliaments pass three readings in each House before they are sent to be signed by the King. Last week, when the sensational Matrimonial Causes Bill to liberalize British divorce (TIME, July 12) reached Buckingham Palace, the House of Lords could plume themselves on having injected a series of amendments to the bill cheerfully swallowed by the House of Commons...
Soon the setter's plume drooped and he trotted slowly home. Police dog and collie also turned tail, as did the low-slung, swaybacked little dachshund. The setter's owner rushed him to a veterinarian, where he shortly died. Said the "vet": "Someone has given this dog cyanide of potassium...
With a Cra-a-a-ack! the ship buckled. Down on the ground went the stern with a peculiarly gentle crash amid clouds of dust and smoke. As the still undamaged bow tilted up at 45°, the flame rushed through the middle and geysered in a long bright plume from the nose. For an instant the Hindenburg seemed a rearing reptile darting its tongue in anger. Then it was a gigantic halfback tackled behind the knees and falling forward on its face. The huge bag settled slowly to earth with fire roaring over it 50 yd. a second. Last...
Theodora Goes Wild (Columbia). When the Lynnfield Literary Society met to ban a best-seller named Sinned Against, pretty Theodora Lynn (Irene Dunne) cast her vote with the rest. No one in Lynnfield knew that, under the nom de plume of Caroline Adams, she had written the book herself. Until its illustrator, Michael Grant (Melvyn Douglas), who had met Theodora on one of her rare trips to New York, arrived in Lynnnfield, there seemed no danger that her double life would be exposed. By good-humored blackmail, Grant compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give...
...plume for Zenith's past, staying power and present rewards belongs to resourceful President Eugene Francis McDonald Jr. Born 48 years ago in Syracuse, N. Y., he left Syracuse University to work in the Franklin Automobile plant pushing a bastard file through aluminum. Before the War he went to Chicago, there to sell Fords on the installment plan, then sternly disapproved by frugal Henry Ford. After a couple of years in the Naval Intelligence Service, Mr. McDonald drifted around Chicago looking for something to put his money in. In 1920 he heard one of KDKA's broadcasts, liked...