Word: purveyors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Purveyor's of the History Department's choice tutorial volumes from the Lower Widener Reading room will be somewhat hindered in their activities this year by a new system which will soon be put into effect...
Worms. In Philadelphia, a gravedigger was busy making a house for a dead man. From the four brown walls of this house, little red worms leaned out, their slim questioning bodies bowing and writhing from round tunnels, like windows or portholes, as they sensed their purveyor working. He, "Joe" (last name unspecified in despatches), struck at one of the worms with a shovel, cutting him in two. Then, about to slaughter another, he scanned the walls of the house he was building. The walls were alive with tiny reptiles. Sliding out of their tunnels, they came writhing into the grave...
...thing they thought about in Chicago last week was what would become of them if Samuel Insull (purveyor of light, heat and trolley rides to most of Chicago and its purlieus) should decide to take the city's taxicab situation in hand. That was the rumor, vague and unelaborated but still striking-that Samuel Insull would stride among the Chicago taxicab companies, either to compete with them or absorb them as one more of his big utility schemes...
...Charles Frederick's arrival was so blazoned that it practically obscured the arrival, on the same boat, of his chief employer-Sir Thomas Lipton, aging tea purveyor, sportsman...
Vitaphone and The Better 'Ole (Syd Chaplin). While Al Jolson mouths "Mammy, Mammy" on the screen, the audience hears Al Jolson throat "Mammy, Mammy" out of what sounds like a loud radio. It is the Vitaphone, now well on its way to fame as purveyor of "canned" music to theatres too small to afford orchestras. After the same slightly harsh, but perfectly synchronized reproduction of Reinald Werrenrath, Elsie Janis, and The Howards, Syd Chaplin proceeds to ramble through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization...