Search Details

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


Usage:

...Freshmen took the two prizes in the drop-kicking contest. W.T. Wet-more '30 scored the highest total out of 15 tries, while O. L. Devens '30 displayed the next best accuracy in the art of the expert toe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KICKING CONTEST HELD IN HIGH WINDS FOR H.A.A. PRIZES | 4/15/1927 | See Source »

...said, beginning to notice the thawing ice as it crept along the romonesque proportions of his sole, approached the Gothic outlines of a toe, "I can make Carver and Ripley and all of the boys so happy by quoting...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

Last week at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Mike McTigue, 34, Irish, met Jack Sharkey, 24, Lithuanian, in the third of Tex Rickard's heavyweight boxing elimination contests. Sharkey, younger, 20 pounds heavier, was favored to win over the scheduled 15 rounds. McTigue stood toe to toe with his youthful opponent, traded blows for eleven rounds, closed one of Sharkey's eyes, cut his lip with sharp left jabs. As the gong rang for the twelfth round McTigue seemed in a fair way to triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Celtic Gore | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...constructive force in lawmaking, but he is consistent. He believes that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The 69th | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

...Senator was talking of them. Stung to his feet by the bantering of Senator Copeland of New York, he had risen to renew his attack upon the Catholic influence (TIME, Jan. 31). He had predicted that Dr. Copeland (red carnation) would lose his seat "unless he did some toe-kissing before the next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Heflin's Bile | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

First | Previous | 384 | 385 | 386 | 387 | 388 | 389 | 390 | 391 | 392 | 393 | 394 | 395 | 396 | 397 | 398 | 399 | 400 | 401 | 402 | 403 | 404 | Next | Last