Search Details

Word: watermelon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...There where the watermelon and the strawberry transform the midnight dew into luscious red juice; there where the springs gush forth that transparent and God-given fluid sparkling with purity and virtue, the only proper drink for an American citizen; but if there be those of a grosser appetite who want to violate the constitution of America, there is Bimini, only an hour or two away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Description | 12/21/1925 | See Source »

...Watermelon," "Welencei Boldosag," "Amen," "A peacock feather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fakery | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...pound watermelon, perambulating in a tin washtub was sighted by railroad men at Fitchburg, Mass. They told reporters. Agog at its clearing papers, which named President Coolidge as the addressee, the reporters heralded by wire the approach to White Court of the ponderous aqueous gourd. ķAt White Court the President presented Lieut. Reginald de Noyes Thomas, of Boston and Squantum, Mass., with the Herbert Schiff Memorial trophy for having been aloft last year 583 hours "without serious accident," longer than any other naval airman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

Pictures, both motion and still, showed the Maude 15 or 20 feet out of water, hanging on ice-hummocks listing 40 after mighty movements of the pack. Stoutly girded, round-bottomed as a watermelon, armored with wooden walls a yard thick, the Maude had slid or crashed back to the water again without mishap every time, though on some occasions blasting powder was required for the relaunching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In the Arctic | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...come by auto and special train, dusty and dirty, many carrying in the parade little black bags with their belongings; bundles of clothes and food bulged many robes; some carried civilian hats in their hands. And it was frightfully hot. There was an awful thirst upon them. Watermelon and ice cream cones were consumed ad infinitum from many a vendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: K. K. K.: Procession | 8/17/1925 | See Source »

Previous | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | Next