Word: sails
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop drift. Even after running up a bill for four days' wages without getting anywhere, they refused to head for any port. Finally, in return for all of Minevitch's money, his snappy yachting clothes, and the sloop itself, they put him aboard...
...Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells his second. Then he knocks out his opponent, races to the pier in his bathrobe, delivers another knockout. When last seen, he is being reconciled with a previous sweetheart (Marian Nixon) brought...
Concluding a six-week visit to the U. S. (TIME, May 2), Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," set sail for England with 15 members of his "First Century Christian Fellowship." In Washington, said he, Herbert Hoover received his party. To one meeting went Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone? Present at a meeting in Dearborn, Mich, were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Soul Surgeon Buchman said that his movement had also interested Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Harvey Firestone...
...sources, scores of gruesome or simply inexplicable incidents, tries to find a place for them in his philosophy. Rabid vampires, with white streaks of froth on their bloody mouths, flitting through the jungles of Trinidad seem to him connected with more human affairs. In 1867 a fishing smack set sail from Boston; among its crew was a Portuguese called James Brown. Two of the crew were missing, were found in the hold. James Brown was sucking the blood from one of them, the other body was drained...
...advertisements and illustrations, hoped to work into the creation of more lasting products, but did not go around apologizing or condemning the source of his present success-said nothing about 'cheapening' his art; who could hold his own with any of them at golf or tennis, and. sail a small boat with professional skill; who was exceedingly attractive to women, but never boasted about it or let it be seen that he was aware of it-indeed, many men were convinced that he didn't know his own appeal...