Word: wilkinses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
If the words of that incurable optimist, Mr. Wilkins Micawber, rang in the ears of Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau last week, Mr. Morgenthau gave no sign. He had just floated the biggest peacetime loan in U.S. history-$1,504,425,000* to keep the Government going until Dec. 1. This...
In Wilkins Micawber language, the U.S. Government's position is now about this: Monthly income: 700 million dollars; monthly expenditures: 700 million dollars and one billion more; results: any man's guess.
Reference by Admiral Willson to colored cadet at Annapolis illustrates Navy standard of honesty, since this lad was literally driven from the Academy by the treatment accorded him by Midshipmen and Faculty members alike. Naval Academy action is of a piece with Navy policy which restricts Negro enlistments to mess...
To Harold T. Wilkins the world is a musty parchment marked "Unexplored," "Galleon Sunck Heer," "Ye Treasure iii Leagues S.W." Panorama of Treasure Hunting is his sixth book on buried ingots and briny chests, prehistoric cities along the feverish Amazon and gold dust combed from the pelts of Klondike grizzlies...
Magnetic pole of the gold digger's globe is 5° 30'N, 87°W: a Pacific isle named Cocos, rainy and "snagged, like an old pirate's teeth." There in the last 80 years have gone hundreds of adventurers to ruin their lives, lose their...