Word: slivered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Perhaps Mr. Sliver was attempting to pull TIME's leg, or had had his pulled so realistically that he actually believed such deliveries take place. The impossibility of such a thing is seen upon analysis. Mr. Stiver states that there were no copies [of TIME] in Seattle, as none had been printed while he was en route from Chicago. That being the case, how could copies not printed at the time sail ahead of him, presumably on one of the C.P.R. ships, be dumped off in the north Pacific, and be awaiting the arrival of the President Cleveland...
...Class of 1936: Sidney Stuart Alexander, Edward Lewis Bassett, Simon Michael Bessie, George Small Franklin, Jr., Charles Allen Haskins, John Bamber Hickam, Robert Charles Hunter, Harold Burton Jaffee, Leonard Wallenstein, Jarcho, Millard Lucien Kaplan, Alfred Pope, Robert Hey Rawson, Theodor Herzl Rome, Robert Dayton Sall, Herman Elbert Schroeder, Emmanuel Sliver, Robert Morton Terrall, Richard Edward Voland, Harold Phelan Welch...
...University of Pennsylvania, Author Francis Scott Fitzgerald wrote a story called "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," published it in his Tales of the Jazz Age. Buried on his remote estate a man found a massive diamond; he could buy anything he wanted by merely chipping off a sliver. He lived in super-Oriental luxury, owned hundreds of shirts, hundreds of neckties, socks, shoes. His house was fitted with every kind of comfort-giving device: buttons that brought soft music from an unseen orchestra, beds that tilted and slid a sleeper gently into a warm, perfumed bath, while violins...
...Liberals for everything from unemployment to an attempt to assassinate him, Camillien Houde. He had one cureall: Government loans at 2% to Quebec farmers. Canadians flocked to listen to him. Impressed editors prophesied that if he did not win the election he would pare the Liberal majority to a sliver. Quebec's performance at the polls last week only proved again that listening to inflammatory speeches and voting for candidates are two affairs. Liberal Taschereau won 79 out of 90 contested seats. Skyrocket Houde followed an old Canadian maneuver and ran for office from two separate districts (expecting...
...England Junior Team Championship of the Amateur Fencers League of America in foils. The members of the first Crimson foils team, H. B. Wesselman '31, Captain H. C. Cassidy '31, and J. D. Allen, Jr. '31, won all their matches, thus clinching the Harvard title to the sliver cup awarded the winning team...