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Word: drippings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late rector of St. Paul's School was a man whose voice was sonorous and whose sentiments had style. St. Paul's boys, who called him "The Drip" long before that phrase had its present teenage connotation, never took him to their hearts, but educators knew Dr. Samuel Smith Drury as a man whose broadsides usually struck home. His bustling, benign successor, the Rev. Dr. Norman Burdett Nash, has neither style nor sonority, but he too hits his target. Last week, speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration at Connecticut's Choate School, Dr. Nash took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Palpable Hits | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...sees a grandfather's clock. His face glows. Inspiration at last. He says slowly to himself, but with growing conviction, "like the tick, tick, tock of the stately clock as it stands against the wall." Then he looks out the window. It's raining. Another inspiration. "Like the drip, drip drip of the raindrops when the summer shower is through." Somehow Cary manages to continue unaided by props through "so a voice within me keeps repeating" when Alexis Smith, always present in the crucial moments, floats in through the door as Cary triumphantly sings "you, you, you" and goes into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/28/1946 | See Source »

...while, though. This week Dartmouth football publicity went overboard for a pair of ends, Mo Monahan and George Rusch, who, if you want to believe the written word, should both be out earning a living for their poor mothers with the Chicago Bears, instead of hanging around Hanover. Superlatives drip from a page and a half of purple prose, but before the final period was inscribed on the release, the more cautious of the writers had his covering sentence. "No matter how superior Holy Cross proves to be against a Dartmouth team that unquestionably has its weaknesses. . ." Right there they...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...Johnson, sunny-faced Hollywood hero, got the proof that he was a full-fledged popular idol: when he visited New Orleans, a couple of bobby-soxers went out of their way to tell him he was no good. He was, said they, a d. d. d.-dismal, dehydrated drip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...placed microphones on a board across the President's lap. He chuckled as he talked: "... I hope some of the scribes in the papers won't intimate that I expect to make Washington my permanent residence. . . ." He talked extemporaneously for three minutes, with the rain beginning to drip from the brim of his grey campaign hat. "This is a very wonderful welcome home ... a welcome I shall always remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champ Comes Home | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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