Word: tinning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...seemed to inflame the mob. At the Gallowgate, where the famous Battle of the Butts occurred in 1544, heads were bloodied. Scots fought with sticks and bottles while their gudewives cheered them on from the upper stones, threw down broken furniture, flower pots, and in one case a large tin trunk on the heads of the hard-pressed constabulary. One gigantic battler kept six constables busy sitting on his head, chest, arms and legs in the station house. Mr. McGovern, M. P., limped into police court complaining bitterly that some policeman had given way to his feelings and booted...
...party. Penrod's dog dies and is buried near the clubhouse. A boy named Bitts gets his father to buy the lot on which the clubhouse stands but Penrod's father buys it back again. The clubhouse is a cozy shanty, ornamented outside by a piece of tin, a portion of rubber-hose, furnished inside with barrels of paint, old packing boxes, a tin-gavel and a periscope made out of a broken mirror. Most enthusiastic members are two small blackamoors, Herman Washington (James Robinson) and Verman Washington (Robert Dandridge), who are so young & ignorant that they...
...have to say is that there is a little uneasiness in this country about the American Legion. I can't imagine anything more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...
...posterior squashed comfortably down on a plank. The whole picture epitomizes some of the arts and industries of the U.S. Upon a great scaffolding several artisans are at work besides Diego Rivera, who is painting a huge central figure, symbolical of them all. Rivera holds in one hand a tin plate for a palette, in the other a brush. The scaffolding ingeniously subdivides the space into six panels...
...rush out and buy some Bah Lias, Gula Kalump, or Linggi, while in teas he must know Budla Beta, Chargola, Jokai, Pabbojan. The mining list includes famed De Beers Diamond Mines, the Rand (gold), Johannesburg Consolidated Investments ("Johnnies"), Rio Tinto ("The Tinto"), Roan Antelope, Katanga, Mount Isa, Siamese Tin...