Word: grasping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Strangler) Lewis, called upon to guard his world's heavyweight wrestling championship from the brawny grasp of Stanley Stasiak in Boston, was enraged to find Stanley perched upon his heaving chest after 34 minutes. Two falls in three being the match, "Strangler" controlled himself for 10 minutes and then hurled Stanley bodily out of the ring. Stanley was boosted back in, embraced powerfully about the head, sat upon by his huge antagonist. Two minutes later this operation was repeated. Lewis stalked to the shower, his frame, dignity and title unimpaired...
EXPRESSING WILLIE?A deft satire on the ludicrous results when a business man has an artistic reach that is longer than his grasp...
EXPRESSING WILLIE-A deft satire on the ludicrous results when a business man has an artistic reach that is longer than his grasp. BEGGAR ON HORSEBACK - Excellent foolery, in which the worm of music turns on big business. THE SHOW-OFF-A highly ticklesome comedy, turning bombast into a fine art. MEET THE WIFE-Two husbands of a flighty wife learning the rueful answer to the age-old question: "Who's boss around here?" THE POTTERS-An American genre study of amusing quality, with oil as the villain. CYRANO DE BERGERAC-Walter Hampden superbly proving that there...
...fact that they were so highly educated which destroyed those unpleasant young men in Chicago, but precisely the fact that theft colleges failed to educate them at all. They read the books, but they did not grasp the idea. A large majority of undergraduates also do not grasp the idea the difference is that they don't read the books. The results are far less dramatic, but they are, as the professor points out, even more serious because they are so much more widespread. New York Tribune...
...absence of undergraduates. There is no doubt but that the subject. "The Immortality of Man" requires for proper appreciation and understanding a deeper and broader experience than the undergraduate is likely to have had. At the same-time, there was much of a stimulating and unusually interesting nature, to grasp which required only attention...