Word: walnut
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Smyrna, Fla. on the shiny black surface of Indian River, a dozen tiny boats, responsive as walnut-shells, noisy as airplanes, wheeled, bounced and scudded around a ten-mile boomerang-shaped course. They were Class-X outboard motorboats, competing in the first international outboard races ever held...
According to a unique law of Pennsylvania, all men intending to study law with a view to practising law in Pennsylvania are required to file applications with George F. Baer Appel, 1500 Walnut St., Philadelphia, for registration as law students before they graduate from college. In addition to this application the prospective law student must answer a comprehensive questionnaire and in some cases submit to a personal interview...
CLUB RIFLE: Walnut Hill. Some notorious gunmen can be seen here and an occasional shooting occurs, in which case you had better get out of range...
...than "execute the laws of Congress." Two years ago Dewey's widow died. Last week old friends went to see the residue of the Dewey glory sold. Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, who was swindled out of $106,000 in an effort to find the Lindbergh baby, bought the walnut armchair that was the hero's deck chair on his flagship the Olympia for $11. A moosehorn liquor set that her estranged husband had given the admiral she got for $30. The four red lacquer tea tables, gift of the Emperor of Japan, went to Abraham Lincoln...
...with his reputation unaspersed. Last week Mr. Ranney discreetly held his peace while Continental directors waited until the RFC's approval should make possible formal announcement of his selection. But LaSalle Street felt sure that shortly after New Year he would go into the chairman's spacious walnut-paneled office on Continental's second floor. Since last March when Chairman Stanley Field, indicted in connection with the Insull collapse, resigned, Continental's president, James Reader Leavell, has been doing the work of president, board chairman and finance committee chairman. He badly needed someone to help...