Word: sprucing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Royal Murder. Despite the Dictator-King's democratic remarks, he has appointed Leader of The White Hand General Zivkovitch his Prime Minister. How likely it is that this ruthless militarist will promote democracy appears from his dark record. He was the spruce young lieutenant charged with the personal safety of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga, in 1903, when they were foully murdered in the royal bedroom of the old palace at Belgrade...
...years later he arrived at the offices of Henry Ford. He was then a young man of 30, sandy-haired, straight as a spruce, well-muscled. In the legal department of the Ford Motor Co. were 21 hopeful lawyers. Each of them would have liked the distinction of being chief counsel for one of the greatest businesses in the world. But Lawyer Longley disappointed the hopes of all 21 in exactly two years, and then still further disappointed nine of them by cutting the department's force to twelve...
Best shot: top of a spruce wagging like a sinister head against a window in a storm...
...state produces more hardwood lumber than any other except Arkansas. And it has on its mountains great wealth in yellow poplar, birch, ash, oak, spruce, hemlock, walnut. They too must be wisely utilized...
King, Dictator, President. When spruce, bronzed King Alfonso had conferred with paunchy, florid General de Rivera to their two hearts' content, they chuffed by special train to a remote and unheard of village in the Pyrenees called Canfrane. There a shiny new electric locomotive was hitched to the special, drew it up a terrifically steep grade to an altitude of 3,600 feet, and stopped dead in the very midnight middle of the Samport Tunnel...