Search Details

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


Usage:

In Detroit. Last week 20,000 veterans of the war with Spain gathered from all states. A flock of automobiles was waiting to carry them down the streets, but the old soldiers laughed. "To hell with those things," they remarked; then they put on blue or light brown uniforms and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boys of '98 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

In the drawing-room, Mr. Healy began to throw things and the others joined him. The bottles were their favorite ammunition, but when the last pint had crashed into "The Old Man's" (by Rubens) forehead, its dregs and fragments joining the unholy litter on the rug, they picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Vandals | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

† A literal person, Author Sinclair read publicly The Song of Songs from the Bible. Parts of it, quoted in Oil!, had been cited as cause for suppressing Oil! Author Sinclair asked Boston police to ar rest him for uttering Holy Writ obscenities. The police sulked. He advertised that he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinclairism | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Meanwhile some 1,800 delegates to the Mississippi Flood Control Conference clapped hands, stamped feet, as the Mayor mounted a platform over which hung a gigantic banner inscribed with the words, "America First." From the Sherman lobby came, intermittently, strains of a fife & drum corps which, aided by placards, advertised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Oratory | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

¶ Austrian customs officials were terrified when they spied a case of knives stamped "Palmer & Son."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Books | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

First | Previous | 290 | 291 | 292 | 293 | 294 | 295 | 296 | 297 | 298 | 299 | 300 | 301 | 302 | 303 | 304 | 305 | 306 | 307 | 308 | 309 | 310 | Next | Last