Word: singleton
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tradition of military men Americans have always cheered-Phil Sheridan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, James Elwell Brown Stuart, the men who used their cavalry as Patton uses his armor, like a saber. Patton is a modern version of Jeb Stuart's scout and raider: Confederate Colonel John Singleton Mosby...
...Play showed three main differences from bridge: 1) South, claiming the contract at 500, declared spades trump (in Check, the trump is not announced until the contract is claimed); 2) South, leading the Spade ace won East's singleton Spade ace (in Check, the first ace wins the second; the first king, the second king, etc.), 3) honor cards taken in tricks counted in point score (in Check, aces and tens count ten, kings and queens, 5.; jacks, no count...
Primitives & Preferences. Among the English paintings in the Providence show were familiar Raeburn, Romney, Reynolds and Gainsborough portraits in the grand manner. Also on view were works by a famed trio of 18th Century New Englanders: John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, John Trumbull - all of whom were influenced by English styles. But the surprise of the show was a group of little-known early American portraits, sound and penetrating studies by men who followed no tradition, who painted people as they saw them...
...they paid more attention to their find, the Union patrol might have shortened the Civil War by several months. They might also have halted one of the most colorful military careers in U.S. history. The dreamer they captured, and soon exchanged for a Union soldier, was John Singleton Mosby, a 28-year-old Virginia lawyer and natural-born guerrilla...
Gems of Jazz, Volume 5 (Decca; 10 sides). Latest addition to Decca's excellent historical anthology. Selected tidbits of the best small-scale Chicago and New Orleans style playing by such immortals as Jimmie Noone, Zutty Singleton, Eddie Condon, Jimmy McPartland. Notable items: Liberty Inn Drag and Get Happy, by the orchestra of famed Pianist Art Hodes, who has not made a recording since...