Word: shim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
...dress for a museum. Its lustrous white satin billowed from the waist into a crinoline that coruscated with flowers of pearls and leaves of gold. Shim mering gold-and-pearl-embroidered lace swathed the noble bodice, gold and pearl paillettes festooned the ample skirt. It cost...
...youth on her first trip to the city in six years. Said she: "New York looked different then. I think the buildings looked taller, but maybe it's because I was shorter." She teamed up with her oldtime dancing partner Bill ("Bojangles") Robinson to do a shim-sham-shimmy before 50,000 in Central Park. Exclaimed modest Miss Temple: "I haven't done this since I was seven, so excuse me if I'm not so hot." Said Robinson: "Honey, you haven't done this since you were four. So it's going...
...bits. Only those near the orchestra platforms could hear any music, and a competition among the 50 amateur bands was called off. No one minded. The young jitterbugs danced to their own mouth organs and to 10? saxophones, to no music at all, voicing the appalling floy floys, shim shams and swizzle-swipes which are the lingo of swing. Four hundred extra policemen marveled that no one was hurt. It was, in the words of Chicago Daily Newsman Gene Morgan, "the strangest manifestation of youthful exuberance perhaps ever witnessed since the Middle Ages' ill-fated Children's Crusade...
MILENBERG JOYS--SHIM-ME-SHAWABBLE: McKenney's Cotton Pickers do a real fast and furious job for Victor...