Word: sprang
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed by three foster-fathers since. The Republican elephant, Democratic donkey and Tammany tiger were originated-how lately and by whom? Answer: Th. Nast, 60 years...
...invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn. The audience was awed. The "cathedral" looked every cent of its $10,000,000 advertised cost. The Roxy Symphony Orchestra burst into the "Star-Spangled Banner." The Mayor sprang to his feet. The audience sprang as promptly as possible considering its lap cluttered with hats, coats, canes...
...week, I walked toward my hotel, on the upper west side of Manhattan, alone. A large Negro brushed roughly by me. 'Be careful how you are walking,' said I. 'Mind you' own business,' he retorted. An instant later this Negro, with two companions who sprang from nowhere, seized and dragged me into the hallway of a frowsy house. Telling about it later, I said: 'They almost strangled me, but I kept my wits. I observed their faces carefully. One of them threatened to kill me. "For God's sake...
When he was invited to speak at Denver University, the student council became alarmed, canceled the lecture. Whereupon, a "Thinkers' Association" sprang into being and invited Judge Lindsey to debate against the Rev. Dr. Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City, Mo. How strenuously "thinking" is viewed with alarm in Denver was evidenced last week. Vice President Ralph Batschelet of the Thinkers' Association, thoughtfully taking his way to his fiancée's house, was set upon, dragged into an automobile by four men, stripped, punched, flogged and pitched into a ditch on the outskirts of town. Secretary Margaret Parlow and other...
Last week a cinema actor* crouched on a cinder track at Pomona, Calif. He had been called the world's fastest human. A former Olympic star, he had burnt out, they said. Burnt or no, he would try again. Revolver barked; the cinemaman, sprang, antique legs hurled him onward. Paced by college lads he ran. Presently, head back, teeth set, he leaped through a tape. Timers announced that Charles Paddock (30-odd) had brought the world's record for 250 metres from 31.2 seconds down to 27.6. Southern Californians were pleased. "It's the air," they explained...