Word: sanding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...comedy routines. "A trial separation," the couple's business manager called it, "merely for a period of readjustment." Anyway, Comedian Kaye got a chic sendoff: smartchat Vogue appeared with an interpretive photograph of him, ringed with profound symbols (a piccolo, an umbrella, a plaster brain, a yoyo, a sand pail, a fiddle, a galosh, a pop bottle, a dead chicken, a milk bottle wearing...
...usual," wrote sandy New Jersey's Charles Aubrey Eaton, "we are putting our heads in the sand." Then Mr. Eaton, in the August issue of the American Magazine, buried head & shoulders in one of the most blindly undiscriminating attacks on Russia that has yet appeared in print. Since Eaton is chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, his blast was a matter of some importance...
...Back." He fought, for the first time in years, a Miura bull-a large, fierce breed, not suited to Manolete's specialty. Spaniards say: "A matador who turns his back on a Miura is a dead matador." Manolete drew the Miura through the sanguinary dance in the sand. As he drove the sword into the bull, one of the horns tore into Manolete's groin...
...Canadians thought Canada had her head in the sand. Said the Montreal Gazette: "Elementary geographical considerations dictate the significance that the Petrópolis treatymakers will attach to Canada's signature to the hemispheric defense act. Without Canadian acceptance . . . the pact will be largely ineffective except as a statement of good intention...
...Some 2,000 Colorado Shriners dressed up like Arabs and went to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument for an induction ceremony. They penetrated the sandy wastes in tractor-drawn wagons, put up a ceremonial tent, ate barbecued buffalo and applauded dancing girls whom they had brought along to undulate on the sands...