Word: plums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...
...expedition, he ordered the sentry not to let the volunteers follow him. But they stormed the gangplank. Cried one of the new conquistadors, slapping his commander on the back: "You don't git off from us, old hoss! For by Ingin corn we'll go plum through fire and thunder with you. What'll you drink, General? Don't be back'ard! Sing out!" Kearny shocked his volunteers by ordering wine...
...John H. Stokes of Philadelphia, 'dean of U.S. venereal disease experts, began: "The venereal disease control field is a perpetual Christmas pudding and full of surprises. As Little Jack Horner (whom I may be supposed to impersonate for this occasion) puts in this thumb and pulls out a plum, with his well-known expression of egotistic self-satisfaction, little does he realize that his find will presently be shown to be a raisin or even a California prune...
...Benedict, was anchored off the Battery landing. Under cover of darkness the President went aboard, followed by Dr. Joseph Bryant [the operating surgeon]. Major O'Reilly of the Army Medical Corps, a dentist and [three other doctors]. We sailed all night down Long Island Sound, anchored in Plum Gut, and the operation was performed the next morning. It was done in the salon of the yacht, the President sitting upon a chair. ... On this occasion we put our aprons over our street clothes but we did boil the instruments." Cleveland lived for 15 years, died of something else...
...polished campaign will be successful, but admit a serious handicap in that their drive has no such euphonious name as the "Lowell Mole Patrol." "But Prune Face is the most sensational character since the Mile was put away," they insist. They best they've thought of is "Make a Plum of Prune Face." In any case, they think they've found the golden apple, and Dick Tracy will make everything peachy...