Word: limp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Essai Surréaliste by famed Salvador Dali, showing a vast dark cypress tree rising against an evening sky from which grows a half-opened book transfixed by a peg on which droops one of Artist Dali's limp watches...
...point London's massed and silent grief for George V was broken by a brief, explosive cheer for Edward VIII. This was instantly chopped short by His Majesty who frowningly jerked his head in the direction of the cheer. As he plodded on. His Majesty began to limp from fatigue. As he forced himself on beside the Dukes of York and Gloucester, subjects noticed that King Edward repeatedly clenched his jaw, bit his lips...
...Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp watches on the seashore, The Persistence of Memory (TIME...
That Shirley Tapp was obviously in a trance neither surprised nor alarmed her parents or the other church members. They gathered around the limp body, prayed loudly until 4:30 a. m. Then they took her to the home of Brother Harold DeMille, prayed some more. Finally the Tapps carried Shirley home to their small bungalow, wrapped her in blankets on the sitting room sofa...
...hours and a half Miss Lorand exhibited such energy and endurance that she left her audience feeling limp. A Haydn symphony was over her depth but she whisked through it boldly, with flashing technique. Dances suited her better, particularly those of her native Hungary. Then she would get wild-eyed, sway from side to side, swing occasionally on her 15 players who appeared to be so thoroughly trained that they scarcely needed the whip...