Word: bummed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Throughout the movie a bewildered and buffeted Chaplin tries to act with dignity, but somehow he never succeeds. When he is driving a Rolls Royce, he screeches to a stop to race a bum for a cigar butt; yet when he is down and out, he spends his last few cents to buy a flower from a blind girl. There is laughter in "City Lights," but that isn't the sole reason for Chaplin's universal appeal...
Lexicographer Eric Partridge [TIME, July 31] has either been given a bum steer or someone is conning him along...
...over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York, bum a cigarette from a radio comedian and walk the mule back. What was he doing on the Pulaski Skyway? Why, just going home to pay off the bet-he hadn't been able to find the comedian...
...premonition that it wasn't going to look as flashy as it had hoped when it finally got to the mirror. The alarm over a short count was greatest on the West Coast; city officials were using everything but moose calls and native beaters to get every last bum and baby located, quizzed and accounted...
...Swot. "Slang," decides Marples, "is a form of youthful ebullience," and nothing, no matter how sacred, is safe from its inventiveness. At Oxford and Cambridge, short academic gowns have been known as rags or cover-arses, bum-curtains or tail-curtains. In the 17th Century, venerable dons were called pupil-mongers, and in the 18th they were gerund-grinders. The heads of colleges were skulls ("a skull being an ancient and desiccated head"), and their meeting place was Golgotha...