Word: human
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Likewise the strange eloquence of the Commodore who prefaces his simplest statements with "Hear the news," whose expression of habitual astonishment is "d'you say?" and who addresses his nephew, with deep affection, as a "human mistake...
...double entendre which is allowed to appear, lucid and poetical, between obstetrical jokes, the acerbities of the Pickle women and the antic gaieties of Hatchways and Fawcett. is ascribable to the author of the play, Kate Parsons. That it makes of The Commodore Marries so funny, so human, so sad a play is doubtless due largely to the direction of Arthur Hopkins and to the sympathy and skill of Walter Huston's acting...
...human affairs that nothing in this world is stable which does not rest on habit. You gentlemen of the League are creating the habit of Peace. Persia wishes you speedy success...
...Author Maurois wrote Ariel: The Life of Shelley. Thereafter interest in the "new" human biography did not dwindle. When Author Maurois recreated another life, that of Disraeli, more copies of it sold in the U. S. than of any other non-fiction book...
Reported Engaged. Charles Paddock, onetime "fastest human" (sprints); and Madeline Lubetty of Manhattan, cinemactress (Cardigan), legitimactress (The Fool...