Word: whisk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after she course is decided upon, the girl will probably play bridge in the dormitory smoker until 10, speculating with her friends as to whether the gentleman in question has two heads (Radcliffe is pessimistic, generally). Leaving with a parting word as "see you in an hour," she will whisk her blind date out of the dorm, taking him to some obscure restaurant like the Midget...
Algeria (pop. 9,000,000 est.), which as a nation is strictly a French creation. Before the French landed in 1830, to chastise the Dey of Algiers for slapping their consul's face with a fly-whisk, the place had been a granary for Rome, a causeway to Western conquest for the Arabs, a nest for Barbary pirates-but never a state or nation...
...with gifts of clothes and money, even of a nine-room house completely furnished. Out of sight of the squire, Patience lived like something of a lord himself. When the daily grind of grape-pitting at the manor was over, Patience would slip away, clad in the best, and whisk off 50 miles to London in his master's Jaguar to flash ?5 notes in the eyes of a bevy of girl friends. By the time his master married, Patience himself was already paying alimony to one exwife, supporting another and paying ardent court to a prospective third. Where...
...same tearing roar of Meyer-Drake Offenhauser racing engines will racket above the oil-slick brick and asphalt. Once more, when the green flag drops, the wheeled buckets of power will whisk past the pace car into the first laps of the most popular sport spectacle in the U.S. Memorial Day will have come back to the Midwest with the 39th running of America's car-racing classic: the Indianapolis 500. The cars will be faster than ever this year, the drivers as daring, and the spectators will get their thrills. But for the first time in the memory...
...Golliwogs like him, and so do Silky the Pixie, Big Ears the Brownie, and Mr. Pink-Whistle, "who goes about the world putting wrong things right." Thus, when Mr. Plod the Policeman wants to clap Noddy into jail on bread and water and rice pudding. Noddy's friends whisk him off on the Toyland Train ("Chuffity-chuffity-chuffity-chuff") to find the real culprits in Goblin-Land...