Word: postcarder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Reversing the trend toward legal betting that started in 1932, Texas last month repealed its 1933 law legalizing booking bets on horse-races and parimutuel bets on dog-races. Fortnight ago the now superfluous Texas Racing Commission received from one Tom Katz of Mesquite a postcard application for a license to operate a cat-racing track. Ingenious Tom Katz, besides describing the electric mice with which he proposed to excite spry young felines, explained that he would also give employment to middle-aged and retired cats by having them chased into holes at the end of a 75-yd track...
Jackson Whitlow took to his bed. Last week, when he passed his 50th day of fasting (but drinking water), his 137 Ibs. had wasted to 97, his intestines were bleeding and two doctors who vainly urged him to eat predicted he would die anyway. Someone wrote him a postcard...
...part in the annual flower festival. Now, full of song and pranks, they were going back to their romantic Budapest. At every station we stopped they'd ask the porter to pick a few flowers for them--then they'd tickle his ear, give him a kiss and a postcard to mail. And what did they do with the flowers? They were getting ready for a battle. It began just before we reached Genova. When I left it seemed as if the dancers--as against the flower girls--would win. For when their flower fodder gave out they took...
Therefore Soviet law was conceived in the most liberal terms, with abortions for the asking, divorces obtainable by postcard, and other features much admired by Communists, Socialists and not a few Christians throughout the world...
...Crimson the Vagabond notices through a sheaf of printed letters. Dear Sir: Will you fill out enclosed postcard . . . . your lectures . . . . most interesting to undergraduates outside your course . . . . thrice-weekly Vagabond column...