Word: pondful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Wittily, the publishers have decorated the book jacket of this literary curiosity with the novelist's figure in its more recent frame-sitting before his goldfish pond at Chartwell, with his back firmly turned. The frontispiece shows the face of a younger, less imposing man, who had just become a Member of Parliament in the year (1900) in which his first and only novel, a highly romantic work of historical fiction, was first issued in book form...
...Hall children had a robust country upbringing. In the winters there was coasting on the slope of the big hill where their house stood, and skating on the pond at the bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored...
Rusticated for trying to hurl a don into a pond, 22-year-old President Frederic Carl Granville Bradley of the Claret Club of Trinity College, Oxford explained to the A.P. the steps that led up to the fateful incident: 1) "We put on our club dress-the blue dinner jacket with the red facing and white tie; 2) we drank Merienda, an excellent, medium-dry sherry. Then we adjourned to the hall to take Chablis with the oysters; 3) this was followed by a clear soup. With the next dish, turbot-that's a fish-cutlets-we took...
...students in this area north of the Charles will assemble on the Cambridge Common and in the Yard, and leave town as quickly as possible via Mt. Auburn St., Fresh Pond Parkway, Boylston St., and Concord Ave., Burke said. He added that the test will be conducted because Cambridge has been designated as one on the nation's 47 "target cities"--urban areas most likely to be attacked by a potential enemy...
Brandon (High Pond)--Excellent...