Search Details

Word: crutches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...invented a leather sleeve device to serve as the missing arm for one-armed golfers, a crutch with a retractable spring so that one-legged men could go bowling, a special hook with which a one-armed man could swing a softball bat, a series of gadgets for fishermen. Then he took a leave of absence from the Press, spent three years touring every major veterans' hospital in the U.S., teaching 50,000 veterans how to use his contraptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Good-Works Beat | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...left, a fat-buttocked nude is grasped by a hand that protrudes from no body; below lies a soft, naked torso and legs, which Grosz says represents the memory of his mother, killed in a Berlin air raid. In the lower left, a demented soldier hobbles on a crutch, carrying his amputated left leg in the crook of his arm. That figure is a remembrance of the time Grosz spent in a mental military hospital during World War I (nervous breakdown following brain fever); one of his fellow patients was a German soldier who had lost his leg, and carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nothingness of Our Time | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

...must the Anglican publications lean so heavily upon the crutch of criticism of Rome - especially if they do not have even an elemental understanding of Roman Catholic beliefs such as the place Mary occupies in Catholic dogma? . . . From some of their more recent railings, it seems their publications have degenerated into a hodgepodge of misguided attacks on certain facets of Catholic belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (89 pp.)-Gian-Carlo Menotti-McGraw-Hill ($2.75). A fine book version of the story Composer Menotti wrote for his TV Christmas opera last year (TIME, Dec. 31), in which a crippled shepherd boy adds his crutch to the gifts of the Three Wise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Children's Hour | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...revue, however, has no alternate crutch in the writing of the sketches. Aimed at unimaginative targets, Charles Sherman's satire has a toothless bite. The dialogue in his picture of an inane cocktail party sounds like something Noel Coward might have written in prep school, while a second skit relies on that hoary staple of a dozen revues--the parody of famous playwrights' styles. Even the spectacle of Miss Davis as a hillbilly crone and a lethargic slattern in gym shoes can't offset a script which comes up with a little horror like Flying Saucers, featuring a trio...

Author: By R.e. Oldenburg, | Title: Two's Company | 11/21/1952 | See Source »

Previous | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | Next