Word: cutely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Carolina he played a saxophone, was one of the first members of Hal Kemp's college dance orchestra. Still with the same band, and now its chief comic, Saxie Dowell recently heard, in the South, an old nursery tune called Down in de Meddy. He thought it mighty cute...
Solomon Guggenheim's snappy, grey-haired, expatriate Niece Peggy shares his affection for abstract art, exhibits it at a cute little London gallery known as "Guggenheim Jeune." Promised for exhibition in Paris last fortnight was Peggy's own large and brilliant collection of non-objects. At the last moment casual Parisians were disgusted to learn that "Guggenheim Jeune," all aflutter, had canceled the show "because of the danger of war." Last week Peggy Guggenheim cast in her lot with London by announcing that this autumn "Guggenheim Jeune" would be expanded into a Museum of Modern Art with...
Jessie Matthews, colts, and other cute people have long legs. What can Miss Peck be thinking of, to consider the expression disgusting, and an uncomplimentary slur...
Empress Nagako gave patriotic Japanese the jitters by producing four daughters before giving birth in 1933 to a son and heir to the world's oldest unbroken dynasty. Cute, deadpan Crown Prince Akihito ("The prince of the August Succession and Enlightened Benevolence") is now five years old, has his own palace, likes to climb trees and ride on the palace lawn in his toy automobile and bicycle. Twenty young sons of peers come to play with him in shifts on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Last week four more noble playmates with special talents were chosen to match Akihito...
...solemn occasion. The deputies were scheduled to hear Herr Hitler's reply to President Roosevelt's recent proposal of ten years of peace (see p. 11), but even before the session began the word got around that the Führer's answer would be cute. Herr Hitler himself set a tone of gaiety for the meeting when, two nights before, instead of dictating his speech to a dictaphone and two harried stenographers, he dressed up in a little-worn dinner jacket and went (along with five carloads of detectives) to the Metropole Theatre where...