Word: spangly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says no bingo, we won't have bingo." The law had already said so in Alberta and Manitoba. Spang on Attorney General Blackwell's announcement came word that British Columbia would follow suit...
Clarence Decatur Howe, the blunt, prow-chinned Reconstruction Minister, was spang in the middle of a row with labor. His angry frankness had put him there...
...Army - at Valley Forge. His schoolbook hindsight of the Delaware Crossing interests General Washington profoundly. Disguised as a yokel, he also checks up on the taffy-wigged, beet-nosed Hessians in the Trenton Bierstube. By the time he faces a Hessian firing squad, the genie suddenly transplants him spang into the middle of a mutiny against Christopher Columbus (Fortunio Bononova). For this episode Ira Gershwin has written the most trickily tanglefooted of his lyrics and Kurt Weill, assisted by Baritone Carlos Ramirez, has composed a raving parody of wopera. The mutiny ends happily when Columbus spots Cuba (Sloppy...
General Manager. At college (University of Iowa), Earl was neither star quarterback nor honor student but, characteristically, general manager of athletics. In 1905 he took his law degree, began encouraging friends to call him "Harrison." Most Iowans continued to call him "Spang...
...Southern Pacific, who lost his job in 1894 when he went out on strike. The family moved 110 miles north to Bakersfield, then still something of a frontier town. Governor Warren recalls the day as a child when he was riding his donkey down the main street and ran spang into the running gun battle in which Deputy Sheriff Wil liam E. Tibbett, father of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, was killed by an outlaw. (Thirty-five years later, Earl Warren's father, who had branched out into real estate, was found murdered in his Bakersfield home. The crime is still...