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...should also tell her about the news of the obvious truth. That took me decades to learn. As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy--a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts. And then after witnessing enough pain and plain courage in the world, I simply reversed course and started writing about the life before my eyes. Eventually one understands that the world is largely made up of obvious truths, lying in the open, begging to be repeated...
Christopher Isherwood, that permanently promising young man, seemed during the '30s to be the two dandiest literary dactyls since Joyce's Malachai Mulligan. To earnest literary leftists of the decade, Auden, Spender and Isherwood were pronounced as one word, and in 1935 Isherwood and Auden were acclaimed for an amusing prose and verse play (The Dog Beneath the Skin) that twitted the British Establishment satisfactorily, even if it struck no telling blows in the class war. Isherwood's most promising work came four years later: Goodbye to Berlin, six wistful stories whose curiously passive hero announced that...
...never seen anything like it in their own institutions. Nothing so delighted the venturesome St. Charles school board, which wrested $140,000 out of the voters and another $30,000 from the town's late, crusty philanthropist, Colonel E. J. Baker (TIME, Nov. 10), for two of the dandiest classroom labs ever conceived by a pair of daydreaming science instructors...
Diabolique comes with the Herald-Tribune's recommendation: "One of the dandiest mystery dramas that has shown here in goodness knows when." Well! Please, please, tell your friends not to reveal the ending. (It's French). At the Beacon Hill. 10 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m., and, of course...
Only recently Gene Autry, now the dandiest, gaudiest, most popular singing cowboy in all Hollywood, turned down an offer of $3,000 to endorse a cigaret, because he does not smoke and his vast fandom knows it. But he gum-chews like a kraut cutter. So last Sunday night Gene Autry went to work at $1,000 a week on a new half-hour radio show over CBS for Double Mint gum, replacing Wrigley's Gateway to Hollywood series of last year. First time out on radio's Melody Ranch, Gene lassoed the folks with...