Word: poachers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Poacher & Herpetologist. Snake-fashion, CJ.P. (for Constantine John Philip) Ionides sheds skins of identity almost from birth. He first shed the name Constantine, which he detested, and became Bobby, because he was always "bobbitting about." In 1917 he was thrown out of Rugby on circumstantial evidence of thievery. Though innocent, Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic...
...created another flurry by reporting that the U.S. frigate Norfolk had violated Cuban waters and that a Cuban patrol boat had fired on a U.S. sub. The U.S. Navy answered that the Norfolk would have run aground had it been where the Cubans said it was. The sub Sea Poacher reported that it might have been shot at on May 6 more than five miles off Cuba, but the shots were so wild that the sub crew thought the tracer bullets were signal flares. Even so. the U.S. made a formal protest to Havana...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...