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Satisfied that there was some cheating, the Mayor loosed his first attack against three clubs: tiny La Vie Parisienne (which seats 75 people, calls itself "the most intimate room in the city"), alleged to owe $13,693 in back city taxes; big, garish Copacabana (which The New Yorker recently described as "life in a boiler factory") allegedly owing $37,370; and the Stork Club, top playground of all, allegedly owing...
...social committee has just about completed plans for that Beer Bust that we owe the Seniors. The date should he announced this week. There will be an assessment of a certain amount upon each Junior. So now is the time for all good Juniors to come to the aid of their party and see that Seniors drink plenty of water just before the fiesta...
...Invasion story to bed at 9 o'clock that night-and I think we owe our editors some sort of tribute for the job they did. I reread their stories Friday- and even at that time, 65 hours after their last correction was made, every sentence in their stories still "stood up"-and they gave me as good a grasp of what was happening as all the thousands of other words I read that day written on the basis of much later news...
...white-thatched, withered, 87, the onetime editor of Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Winston Churchill's father Randolph has been working for years on a book called The Coming of Freedom. Said National Institute President Arthur ("Mr. Tutt") Train: "The American people owe a great debt to this man, once famous, now almost forgotten." Said old-time Editor McClure (who will get his medal-and $1,000-in May): "I am unfamiliar with [present magazines]. I haven't read one in ten years...
...every night of our lives is spent upon the books as several instructors noticed one morning last week. A good part of the platoon had a taste of beer and spaghetti (with meat balls) at a little party for which we owe thanks to the Lieutenant who obligingly forgot, for the night, our performances at past inspections. We doubt whether the Navy can show us a man who can hold a candle to "Turk" as far as "chug-a-lugging" is concerned...