Word: mattering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...came over to me and said, 'What's the matter with you? You must be joking.' I told her no, it was true. She pulled the cover off and started trying to clean his face and blew air from her mouth into his mouth and said that he was warm and that she knew he was still alive. She was crying, and said she didn't know what had gotten into me. She asked me if we had had a fuss about anything, and I told her no. She said she didn't know what...
Doing his best to keep a stiff upper lip, Press Chief Felix von Eckardt reassuringly announced that Adenauer himself would probably agree to testify on the matter-provided his Cabinet gave its consent. In case the Cabinet didn't, Adenauer's Socialist opponents were preparing a batch of questions to throw at der Alte in the Bundestag. Among them: Was it true that Adenauer's daughter, Frau Lotte Multhaupt, had also enjoyed the use of a "borrowed...
...year) and moved out of the jazz cellars into such brassy clubs as Manhattan's Copacabana. Does that mean she plans to stick entirely to pop songs? Not at all, says Ella. "I sing like I feel. Sometimes some of the fellas say, 'What's the matter, Ella, you goin' square?' And I tell them, 'I'm not goin' square, I'm going versatile...
During World War II, convinced that fighting men wanted their reading light and sexy, Esquire dropped almost all reading matter that required concentration. Major advertisers drifted away, suspicious of the reader who thumbed over the magazine's trashy mysteries, westerns and pinups. Gingrich left in 1945, but remained a stockholder. In 1952 Smart recalled him, gave him a free hand to change Esquire as he liked...
...writers W. R. Burnett and John Huston have supplied him with lines which are, after some twenty years, acutely embarrassing. They cannot, for that matter, have been very absorbing when they were brand...