Word: blemishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tweed hat bought in England, green . . . Item: a coffin"). Then Characteristic Comments from: the nursery clock, the shoes, the fire, Shakespeare, Vivien, the desk, the prostitute, the heart. You hear Remarks on the Person of Mr. Jones from: the trained nurse ("it's a fine boy, not a blemish, God bless him"); other boys ("hey bricktop! hey carrots"); the snow ("centuries hence, it will be long ago''). You follow his career by reading a list of Inscriptions in Sundry Places, from which you learn that he spent his boyhood in the South...
Taken all in all Petticoat Influence does not fail to be diverting However, its most serious blemish is that the author has avoided subtlety would seem from the degree of success attained, by design...
...dark corners where erring stags were won't to drink their fill. It is said that none but the brave deserve the fair and brave indeed will be the undergraduate who under threat of expulsion finds means whereby he may overlook the canker in the rose or blur the blemish on the girl of his choice...
...talking picture of newspaper life, starring Robert Armstrong, Carol Lombard, and Sam Hardy, holds your interest to the end. The cynical, sarcastic atmosphere of the news room is there: the big scoop, the ceaseless waste of energy. Even a trite denouncements brought about through a dictaphone roll, does not blemish the effect of the whole...
This seems a blemish on Boston's coat of arms, a blind-deaf-mute behind bars on a field sable, with motto "Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil." But it can be forgiven on the premise that actions speak louder than words...