Word: canting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Athletic Director Bingham cant't afford to wait too wait too long. Spring practice generally starts around March 15 and applicants for the job know it. They have been cramming the H.A.A. mail bag. The place de resistance was a sincerely-penned communique from the wife of a mid-western high school coach. She was convinced her man was the logical choice to lead Harvard out of the football wilderness. "This is between you and I, Mr. Bingham," she said in her letter, "as my husband yet knows nothing about my writing...
...Burkhart wins such hard-to-get parishioners with his regular-guy sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...poetry and prose). His confidence in his own impressions of art falls little short of the exaltation reached by Gertrude, but it is based on a lifetime of attention to art and artists and a healthy struggle to apply Dr. Johnson's dictum: "Clear your mind of cant." Whatever else is true of the U.S. expatriate company of which the Steins were members, they learned a good deal about the pleasures of looking at things, inciuding things on canvas...
...picture involves: 1) a good deal of elaborate gangster talk, perhaps a trifle too redolent of dictionaries of cant; 2) a conscientious coverage of the key spots of the period (Chicago, Miami, Manhattan, Saratoga); 3) some appealing performances, notably those of Scott as the gambler, Newcomer Paige as his neatly pneumatic girl friend, and Harry Lewis as his rather clinically masochistic Man Friday...
...most readers the single actions which measured off the tremendous campaign are household words-Kula Gulf, Saipan, Leyte, Okinawa-but they remain isolated incidents on the war's vastest and most unfamiliar battlefield. TIME Editor Cant has fitted these battles into the context of comprehensive, coherent history. The battle narratives are packed with detailed descriptions of the forces involved, the missions assigned to each, the complex of pressures which determined the outcome. At the same time, Cant points out the needs which governed the course and timing of U.S. operations...