Search Details

Word: slaney (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Progress. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Elizabeth Slaney called attention to a special feature planned for her new $175,000 drive-in theater: a button system for every car to bring a vendor on the run with a fresh supply of popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Barney Slaney, six-foot-five and solid as stone, was a brave engineer but his wife was a bad w-m-n. When Barney discovered the facts he killed her and her lover, was sentenced to a convict camp for life. But he did not stay long. Told off to help bury yellow-fever victims in a nearby town, Barney made a graveyard break and got away. In his flight he met up with a lovely virgin, conveniently orphaned by the epidemic. Naturally they fell in love. In a Western mining town they married, soon became most popular members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Illiterature | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

First | Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | Last