Search Details

Word: wagonful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...they are, these songs sound nasty and urgent as ever. The quality is so direct and uncluttered that it can take you straight back to the days that drummer Sam Myers recalls in the album notes, when he, James and the band would pile into a nine-passenger station wagon with their instruments and head on down the road. You couldn't miss 'em: that black-and-white wagon had a yellow broom painted on the side and a big sign that read THE BROOMDUSTERS, after an early James hit, Dust My Broom. That broom still sweeps clean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blues, Hot and Home Fried | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

When he became a dirt farmer, his relatives never saw him in bib overalls. One recalled him under a Panama hat in a wagon. And in the barn was a 1911 Stafford convertible ("a rich man's car") with a brass-framed windshield and huge Prestolite lamps. In that grand machine, after plowing, he burned up the road back to Independence, where his indulgences with his gang ran to picnics, theater and poetry. Today's Democrats should be cautious when putting their arms around Harry. He disliked jazz, modern art and most liberals. The mind boggles contemplating what he would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Just Wild About Harry | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

They have lifted their voices in sacred and secular song ever since their wagon trains pulled up to the Great Salt Lake in the summer of 1847. That once small choir soon became one of the world's finest battalion-size forces (325 singers), reason enough for Sony Music to reissue some of the MORMON TABERNACLE CHOIR'S top hits. The five-CD set includes hymns, Civil War songs and American standards. The choir's ringing harmonies and bright tones are perfectly suited to chorales (Sheep May Safely Graze, with its heavenly shifting of voices) or patriotic marches (The Caissons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short Takes: Sep. 7, 1992 | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

This film could easily have been released during the 1950s, when sanitary mega-historical Hollywood epics were the norm. In fact, Far and Away features an elaborate recreation of the Oklahoma land rush, when settlers launched a mad, ruthless wagon and horse race across the western prairie to claim free plots of land offered by the U.S. government...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: Far From Culture, But Good As Escape | 6/27/1992 | See Source »

...lives near Porter Square, teaches three tutorials in the History and Literature Department, and drives a station wagon...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Dunster Tutor Noel Ignatiev, A Lifetime of Fighting 'Injustice' | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next