Word: coye
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President asked his advisers to give him the name of a man to start planning the Home Front. Lean, stringy Harry Hopkins submitted the name of lean, stringy Wayne Coy, 37, a long-faced, spectacled young man who was once chief of WPA in Indiana, and who was brought to Washington in 1939 by Indianian Paul V. McNutt...
...Frank Knox and Colonel Donovan, home from the wars. He went over Lauchlin Currie's final report on his trip to China. He talked over the setup of a "home defense" for the U. S. in a conference with ex-Ambassador William Bullitt, Assistant Federal Security Administrator Wayne Coy, Budget Director Harold Smith, Harry Hopkins. Before traintime he saw Secretary of War Stimson, talked with William Knudsen about appointments to the National Defense Mediation Board. Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones rode on the Florida-bound special with him. At Jacksonville the President paused to inspect...
...possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure (in the middle of the picture they even fall back on coy effects with a small dog), not so much Bachian power as Lisztian super-schmalz. Their organ often sounds not so much a classic organ as a Mighty Wurlitzer-its tremolos too tremulous, its diapasons too windy. And in treating the theme of Love Thy Neighbor they are competing with some...
Mildred Dunn, pretty, 21-year-old Chicago divorcée, is either the most virtuous, the most ingenious, the most devilishly coy or the most imaginative woman to appear in a law court in many a day. Last week, to an astonished Chicago court, she testified in her sister's divorce case that last year she had frustrated her brother-in-law, a radio engineer, in almost 200 attempts to rape...
...appearances in British films. Unfortunately, the Empire touch has passed lightly over just the asset of No, No, Nanette which pleased U. S. audiences: the tuneful score of Vincent Youmans, containing I Want to Be Happy and Tea for Two. The residue is just a flimsy yarn about a coy and curvesome Miss Fix-it (Miss Neagle) who spends her time extricating an errant uncle (Roland Young) from the grasp of troublesome trollops...