Word: earling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited to Capone, police announced Aiello's slayers were Caponemen...
Middle Line. The first westbound passengers over this middle line did not, of course, pay for their rides.* Riding on the first plane, followed by two planes with mail, were four distinguished deadheads: Postmaster General Brown; Harris M. Hanshue, president of the line; Earl Wadsworth, superintendent of airmail; Amelia Earhart. Cargo was eight sacks of mail. Well before noon the vanguard plane was past Camden (Philadelphia's airport of entry) and into the Alleghenies via Harrisburg. Here the pilots watched out for "dirty stuff," the fog, snow & sleet that had harassed Chairman of the Technical Committee Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Musical-EARL CARROLL VANITIES (dirty), FINE & DANDY (Joe Cook), GARRICK GAIETIES (youthful), GIRL CRAZY (Gershwin Music), PRINCESS CHARMING (Jeanne Aubert), THE SECOND LITTLE SHOW (pleasant), THREE'S A CROWD (Libby Holman, Clifton Webb, Fred Allen...
Both God and Mammon have at last been served. Sunday their praises were carolled from the pulpit in a sermon whose text was indirectly taken from the Bible. Vanities, saith the preacher, my Vanity of Vanities is now showing in Boston. Speaking as a man of God, Earl Carroll deplored the rigid censorship of his nigh Eve like girls as they appeared in his musical comedy at the Shubert. He created art unappreciated by the staid Bostonian morality as voiced by City Censor Casey. Besides bare legs Mr. Carroll pleaded for more profanity on the stage of today; he wanted...
...Earl Carroll is to be congratulated for his taking the cloth, but he should have left a little of it for his girls...