sugar-plum

As we ring out what has been a pretty lousy year for most of us, Wall Streeters are all aglow -- thoughts turning to sugar-plum fairies dancing in their brains, bearing bundles of spring bonuses -- while stepping around agitated demonstrators who Occupy but a tiny part of their head space.

Adam Levin: Chestnuts, Jack Frost and Wall Street's Spring Bonuses Adam Levin 2011

As we ring out what has been a pretty lousy year for most of us, Wall Streeters are all aglow -- thoughts turning to sugar-plum fairies dancing in their brains, bearing bundles of spring bonuses -- while stepping around agitated demonstrators who Occupy but a tiny part of their head space.

Adam Levin: Chestnuts, Jack Frost and Wall Street's Spring Bonuses Adam Levin 2011

As we ring out what has been a pretty lousy year for most of us, Wall Streeters are all aglow -- thoughts turning to sugar-plum fairies dancing in their brains, bearing bundles of spring bonuses -- while stepping around agitated demonstrators who Occupy but a tiny part of their head space.

Adam Levin: Chestnuts, Jack Frost and Wall Street's Spring Bonuses Adam Levin 2011

There's too much premature excitement and optimism, and there are too many cities with delusional sugar-plum fantasies about this summer's free-agent extravaganza.

First the Playoffs, Then the Big Prize 2010

In Mr. Ratmansky's sugar-plum realm, however, the fairy is not the leading ballerina in a candy-colored tutu but a more matronly figure, performed by the same dancer who plays the role of the Stahlbaum nanny.

A Mouse in the House Robert Greskovic 2010

•Need an antidote to the sugar-plum version of holiday cheer?

Critic's Corner Wednesday 2008

Can science explain why the same song we enjoy singing with relatives or congregants drives us to visions of sugar-plum homicide when it blares across the public-address system Chez Target?

Do You Hear What I Hear? Daniel J. Levitin 2008

Then arose the guest and took up the child from the floor, who kicked and screamed, and craved her mother as her broken speech might; but the alien spake softly to her, and said: Hush, dear one, and be good, and we will go and find her; and she gave her therewith a sugar-plum from out of her scrip.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

In the West there remains of this civility only the simple and innocent practice yet taught in country places to children — that of kissing their right hands in return for a sugar-plum.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

They were all so much alike, with their little black faces and funny little curly heads, that old Mammy Chloe used to get them mixed up sometimes, and whip Bambo when it was Sambo who had been naughty, or give Topsy a sugar-plum when it was Bambo who deserved it.

A bedtime story « knitnut.net 2007