Word: spencers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...standard landscapes and lackluster likenesses, it featured an ambitious composition by 71-year-old Portraitist Augustus John and some pretty splashings by top-ranking Honorary Member Winston Churchill. It also boasted one picture that made all the rest look pale: a new 21-by-7-ft. Resurrection by Stanley Spencer, a frayed little sparrow of a man who may well be a modern master...
...some foxes got rabies, bit cattle, dogs, children; one jumped on a man's neck. A dozen rabid cows were reported, and many more had died under suspicious circumstances; 47 people had had to take anti-rabies shots. Anti-fox petitions poured in on County Judge James ("Turkey") Spencer...
...Turkey Spencer yielded to no man as an enemy of the fox. As a state representative, Turkey had beaten the hound-dog lobby, got a bill passed to make fox killing legal for the first time in 20 years. But Turkey was up for re-election ("Let's have Turkey in November"). He had nothing against the hound-dog boys personally, but the farmers had the votes. Turkey had read about a man in Brownwood named Adam L. Lindsey, who could call foxes with a cow horn. He sent...
Morrison, bow; Spencer, 2; Parker, 3; W. Gauntt, 4; Hale, 5; Brunner, 6; Pieton, 7; Graf, stroke; Schroth, coxswain...
...drive will also examine other institutions and private corporations in the city during the next month, including Rindge Tech, Spencer added...