Word: match
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Time changeth all things. But one boil that will never burst was summed up in the cry of Miss Lois Salsgate, a petite Middlebury alumns. "Every Harvard man I've seen," she groaned, "has had a little green bag over his shoulder and a posture to match...
Masterpiece is hardly a strong enough word to describe this French import. Other Gallie efforts have been praised highly in the last decade, but none of them can possibly match the broad scope and multiple perfections of "Les Enfants," a product of the German Occupation which contains, among other things, a notable expression of the tragedy of spiritual frustration and isolation...
...hours later, after Pat Todd had calmed down, and apologized, the committee decided to play the match if the French star consented. But Winner Landry was not to be found...
...Hour Day. In Look's Fifth Avenue GHQ, the two have offices to match their personalities. Mike Cowles, deliberate, slow-spoken, has a sedate, paneled, 13th-floor office, a neat, clean desk. His wife's, eight floors below, has bright lime-yellow walls, a royal blue rug and a littered blond mahogany semicircular desk. Fleur dresses dramatically, sports an uncut emerald ring as big as a horse chestnut, talks fast and crisply, smokes and likes Scotch & soda. Both she and Mike wear black hornrimmed glasses. In their spare time, Mike plays tennis ("enormously good," says Fleur), while...
...probably as candid a confession of a writer's moral and ethical anguish as ever got into print. Not even in Gide's own sensationally indiscreet autobiography, It Die (a limited edition appeared in the U.S. in 1935), is the reader treated to a grimmer spiritual wrestling match than in this account of Gide v. his personal devil, Gide v. an inhospitable world, Gide v. his Puritan conscience...