Word: spruced
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nearly everything snitchable. Meanwhile what was David Lloyd George doing last week? Age cannot sap his energy nor custom stem the torrent of his words and plans. In London he went to his barber, emerged in a new and startling nakedness shingled & shorn of the traditional Lloyd Georgian mop. Spruce as ever he addressed a Liberal rally at Stowmarket-nothing special, just all in the year's work. It so happened that British unemployment came up another 120,000 this month to 2,139,000, but any number over 1,000,000 would have served as well. "There...
...stocky little tycoon who smiles and smiles (from habit rather than chronic mirth) is great Baron Melchett, No. 1 British industrialist, board chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd. Last week in Manhattan he smiled at the Bond Club, addressed to its spruce and serious members a sardonic prophecy. Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition...
...candidate for the Senate). Mr. Jameson was the largest individual contributor ($172,800) to the Hoover campaign (TIME, April 28). Squarejawed, tightlipped, with a big dimple in his chin, Mr. Jameson has grey-fringed black hair, a close-cropped black mustache, wears sparkling pince-nez before placid grey eyes. Spruce and good looking, he refused to be photographed because, he said, he was "not good looking enough." The tale he told the committee concerned how he had played what politicians call "the fat cat" (cash provider) in the South to defeat Smith...
...overall, 86 ft. on the water; she has a canoe-like stern, long, overhanging bow, a longer and squarer keel than the other proposed defenders. L. Francis Herreshoff designed her. Her steel frame came from Pennsylvania, her mahogany from South America, her pine deck and spruce mast from Washington, her black walnut trimmings from Indiana...
After being thus drenched Edward of Wales took crafty revenge on King Alfonso. At an inspection of the Royal Spanish Navy the heir of Britain, who had been asked to wear a spruce naval uniform, put on his slouchiest flannel suit, his most bashed and floppy hat and gave the little Spanish Navy the kind of inspection he thought it deserved, in view of King...