Word: roses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Clerk read the title of the bill ("H. R. 10772, a bill to amend the World War Veterans' Act of 1924"). Mrs. Rogers rose...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
...Brien (born 1895)?who won decisions over Ad Wolgast, K. O. Brown and Young Erne, and who now owns a gymnasium like his brother's. Although 17 years the younger, he became, as the evening wore on, increasingly critical of his brother's prowess. Mr. O'Brien soon rose from his chair, led the stripling into an empty room and locked the door...
Well groomed as usual, he last week rose before the Chamber of Commerce of Atlanta, Ga.; spoke...
Here is a novel-reader's novel, splashed with color, with consummate skill laid on. It begins in Abyssinia in afternoons hibiscus-red, rose-pink, iris-purple; in twilights of sapphire-matrix, gold lacquer, saffron fire, blood-scarlet; in sepia shadows of moonlight and, far and far away, star-spangled indigo of the lower sky. There, in a barbaric dawn, John Masterson, a normal middle-aged Englishman, ponders the news that he is heir to a fortune. Only a prayer-got sense of duty persuades him to accept it. Returning to London, he finds his fortune times and times bigger...