Word: straitly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sights and smells alternate with obscure adolescent fits of temper and weeping. Most of Josephine Johnson's farm tales are no more than well-written, undergraduate, descriptive essays, but in the best of them the real torments of hard times and hunger seem to struggle to escape the strait jacket of her fluent and mannered prose. Among the 22 stories in Winter Orchard...
Last May, two Martinez, Calif. Mexicans named Anacleto Torres and Areo Cabrero, both section hands on the Southern Pacific Lines, set out to celebrate Memorial Day. In the course of the celebration, Anacleto shot Areo twice, bashed in his head with an ax, threw him into Carquinez Strait at the top of San Francisco Bay. Anacleto then confided the murder to two friends, who promptly informed the police. However, it proved to be one thing to arrest Anacleto and another to make him confess. For two weeks the moody mozo denied everything...
...having climbed back to the highest level since 1928 (2.7?) looked sweeter than it had for a decade. And though nearly every sugar man had some grudge against the new order, recovery was largely the result of the Government's grim efforts to put the industry in a strait jacket. The world price is still less than...
...Japan's military jitters last week passed into the dizzy realm of pure nonsense when Tokyo police pounced on a publisher of wood block prints and seized 200 prints of a famed view of Xaruto Strait, done nearly 100 years ago by famed Hiroshige (1797-1858). The print shows a rocky shore line, drawn with the master's delicate and pointed simplicity. Scores of copies of it have long hung on U. S. walls. Xaruto Strait, however, is now a fortified zone. Last week the Tokyo police, addled by suspicion, forbade further reproduction and sale of Hiroshige...
...however, do not like Formosa, and only enough Japanese live there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...