Word: stalls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life history: "there have been few epoch-making changes in the two hundred odd years that have passed since pugilism first became a recognized trade. I do not call it a sport. . . . Professional boxers are tradesmen. They whirl their fists to purchase expensive cars or else to buy coffee-stall suppers...
Clothed in the cast-off garments of Apollo, with a crown of bay generally askew, strumming at intervals a tuneless lyre, the genius of the paper has lived on unchallenged and unchallenging while its mascot Pegasus has remained fast tethered in his stall...
...subcommittee is going to adjourn, maybe because of the trouble I raised. It may not be so; Mr. Green says he is going to see his daughter.* But the Republicans are not doing anything, anyway. They are only stalling. They have no other object except to stall until pressure can be brought to bear against the bonus." The next day Representative Green (Republican, of Iowa), Chairman of the Committee, ordered the bill made public and it was published at large in the press of the country...
...Jockey Club cast the palm to Zev, asking My Own to stand ready in his stall lest a substitute be needed...
...horse bought by a man of Paris, Ky., from a farmer of Jefferson City, Mo., disappeared from his new owner's farm. Two weeks later came a letter from Jefferson City saying that the horse had reappeared in its own stall, 500 miles away...