Search Details

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


Usage:

...Cocked Hat (Boulting Bros.; Show Corp. of America) launches a satirical spitball at the British Foreign Office, which not long ago returned the compliment by scotching plans to enter the movie in the recent Moscow Film Festival. Encouraged to know that the Banner of Blimpism (a blue funk on a field of choler) still flies, Britons by the thousands crowded in to see the spoof, and doubtless the film's American distributors would welcome a similar seal of disapproval from the U.S. State Department. At any rat Producers John and Roy Boulting, wh subverted the army in Private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Died. Walther Funk, 69, Hitler's Economics Minister and Reichsbank President, sentenced to life imprisonment by the Nürnberg Tribunal in 1946, but released in 1957 because of ill health; of a heart attack; in Düsseldorf, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 13, 1960 | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...trial involves sensational charges and the mate's defense gets into the deeper waters of character. At the same time the play itself gets into deeper waters, and there it eventually drowns. In a clutch of sudden deaths, crucial signal lights, lies whitening into truths, loyalties rusting into funk, and rats deserting a sinking bosun, disbelief noses out tension and playwriting mishaps outnumber maritime accidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Mar. 28, 1960 | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Calling for Fix. In Calgary, Alta., the Herald ran a personal ad: "Rented room on Aug. 18 in East Calgary. Couldn't find way back. Could landlord please phone me at AV 9-9586 and ask for Jake Funk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Networks may trumpet the latest figures in full-page ads; Madison Avenue may study them in a grey flannel funk. But for the average televiewer, ratings remain a mathematical mystery. Do they really tell whether one show is better than another? Or more popular? Or both? The answer, said Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Mike Monroney last week, is that the ratings add up to a statistical tyranny that fleeces the public of quality shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Ratings Berated | 12/8/1958 | See Source »

Previous | 192 | 193 | 194 | 195 | 196 | 197 | 198 | 199 | 200 | 201 | 202 | 203 | 204 | 205 | 206 | 207 | 208 | 209 | 210 | 211 | 212 | Next