Search Details

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


Usage:

Last week, while Hollywood made passes at Conchita, Grandfather Verrill, warming his 79-year-old bones in Florida's sunshine, frowned on his granddaughter's monkeyshines: "She's a darn fool and bound sooner or later to get killed." But spirited Conchita Cintron's only complaint last week was that Mexican bulls are not savage enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Girl Bullfighter | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...loathing for a Hollywood cutie named Robert Taylor. We have advocated impeachment, abdication, excommunication, even complete abolition. But the time has come for the bugle to call retreat. That male Wampas Baby Star is becoming an actor What has inspired this transformation, Heaven only knows, but "Remember?" is a darn good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Darn That Dream (Tommy Dorsey; Victor). Mr. Dorsey does about as well by this de Lange ballad as Benny Good man did in the (late) show, Swingin' the Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: January Records | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Most of the actors were too weary to have any feeling of nervousness about the opening tonight. Tru so darn tired now all I want to do is like down and go to sleep mingled one of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtain Rises on New Show Tonight | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...wholly pleased by the proceedings was Lawyer Key's lean and leathery great-grandson, Lieut. Colonel Francis Scott Key-Smith, who hyphenates his name "because there are so darn many Smiths." Pleased was he that a painting of his ancestor, peering through dawn's early light, was unveiled in Fort McHenry by Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, the tireless patriot who in 1931 helped make The Star-Spangled Banner the official as well as the actual national anthem. But so ill-pleased was he by the political overtones of an address by Presidential Aspirant Paul V. McNutt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Anthem's Anniversary | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | Next