Word: flourished
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Crimson banners flourish...
...engagement with the Vienna Opera, then in its glory. He made a prodigious triumph, established himself quickly as Vienna's favorite tenor. As seasons passed he strengthened his position until he became a veritable institution of the city, fêted and acclaimed. The War came. Operatic things ceased to flourish, but Piccaver kept his place in popular and aristocratic favor. The U. S. declared war upon Germany; then upon Austria. And still Piccaver, an enemy alien, retained his prestige and vogue. During the after-War period he reigned a veritable King of Opera...
...newspapermen who gave Firpo his nom de guerre, "Wild Bull of the Pampas." And later it was the newspapermen who had Luis eat raw meat. Thus with a single flourish of the pen is a bovine rendered carnivorous. One journalist (Frank F. O'Neill of The Sun and The Globe] had wit enough to remark: " The public is expected to see a horned man roaming about with blood from fresh-killed steaks dripping from his mouth...
...wide health education; world peace through understanding as the ultimate goal of world education. It is fortunate that these heresies were promulgated in San Francisco rather than New York. How could the great patriotic principle of hatred of all Britishers, so dear to Mayor Hylan's educational heart, flourish under a system of international textbooks in history? What kind of hundred-per-centism could be taught in schools which looked to a world peace through understanding? Commissioner Hirshfield may well weep as he calls upon his Puritan ancestors to witness this triumph of radical propaganda...
...MUSIC BOX REVUE?Irving Berlin's hardy annual continues to flourish. The long arms of Charlotte Greenwood and the clatter of Bobby Clark call for a consistent laugh...