Search Details

Word: bonebag (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1946-1946
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Hannen Swaffer, peninsula-nosed old bonebag who rattled out such fee-faw-fum dramatic criticism that London's Laborite Daily Herald turned him loose on the Tories, arrived in Manhattan with his hair in its usual bun, his tongue as tart as ever. Two new Swafferisms: 1) on Winston Churchill-"[His] opposition . . . has been childishly futile"; 2) on Britain's No. 1 Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, who attends to Methodism no less than moneybags-"I don't think there is any Methodism in his madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aphorists | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

| 1 |