Word: sopped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...increase in the capital of the Federal Land Bank system. This was the session's biggest sop to farmers...
Selby Clive (Mr. Conroy), a Canadian mining magnate, has a wife (chirrupy Fay Bainter). whose life has been made so pleasant for her by an adoring husband that boredom has driven her to the brink of indiscretion with a young sop named O' Ryan (Derek Fairman). By chance they learn that Clive changed his name from Selby 20 years before in Canada. By chance they also learn that a man named Selby, 20 years before in Canada, ingeniously did away with his philandering mate and her lover in a series of accidents arising out of circumstances which...
...virile engineers. When it was learned that Burnis Frederick and three other law students had abducted Miss Butterfield, taken her from Columbia to Moberly, Mo., the engineers were hot indeed. Three days later eleven of them set upon Burnis Frederick and a companion. Was Burnis Frederick a milk sop? Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! went his revolver. Down went three of the avengers of Mary Butterfield: Jerry Cebe, captain-elect of the wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with a bullet in his abdomen. Law Student Frederick...
Chief Delegate McKelvie even managed to say that the conference "accepted in principle the American suggestion that there should be a reduction in acreage." Acceptance-in-principle is a useful phrase. The Conference did adopt a sop resolution in which it stated the obvious fact that reduction in acreage would ease the world wheat situation, but no chief delegate, except Sam McKelvie, even promised to exhort farmers to "voluntarily reduce...
...defenses of Verdun, and as the Allied offensive on the Somme failed at frightful cost, Joffre was "promoted" (retired) from the post of Commander-in-Chief to something created on the spot called "Adviser to the Government in Matters Concerning the Direction of the War." Finally this sop was replaced by the baton of Marshal. To "Papa" Joffre the supreme military honor came as a sad pseudo-climax, a kind pretense that his power had not been taken away. There was nothing left to do, no further service he could perform for France, except to ride through the streets...