Word: frankenstein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...
...swift, numbing surprise was the assassination of Admiral Jean François Darlan, the onetime French collaborator who had become America's friend, or America's tool, or perhaps America's moral Frankenstein (see p. 24). The nation heard Franklin Roosevelt's angry reaction: ". . . first-degree murder." It listened to good grey Secretary of State Cordell Hull: ". . . an odious and cowardly act." But many Americans did not know whether to be horrified or relieved, and their not knowing was a heavy burden...
...grim allegory, showing a U.S. soldier disemboweling a Japanese Frankenstein monster behind which looms an equally monstrous Nazi ogre, is the largest of seven pictures just completed by Artist Thomas Hart Benton...
...worst, he may have feared that his Army, suffering simultaneously the numbing sensations of cold and defeat, might turn on him, its Frankenstein...
...should rue that infamous day when an inconsidered and rash Act of the Corporation created the annex across the Common. Like Frankenstein's, this hideous monster now threatens to turn and devour its master and creator. Tell the man whose house is on fire to be calm, but urge not temperance on me while this grief blot still remains on the Harvard escutcheon! I demand the immediate suppression of the R----e Table on the grounds of indecency. R. Llewelyn Brill...