Word: messe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...smeared on the lipstick with a will, and soon discovered mascara. "The neighbors called me cheap," she says, "but I knew I really wasn't." Her stutter began to disappear. She wrote verse. She skipped the last half of the eighth grade. "I looked back on the whole mess around that time," Marilyn recalls. "And something came up inside me and I said to myself. 'Somebody's got to come out of this whole...
...York, called it the "Excelsior," and poured his own money into it. Just as the brigade approached bankruptcy, the Union defeat at Bull Run made President Lincoln happy to put Sickles' volunteer army on the Federal payroll. Sickles hired chefs from Delmonico's to keep the mess happy, but good cooking did not save him from losing a third of his men in the advanced position he had taken up against Meade's orders at Gettysburg. While the rights of the matter were still being debated (they still can be), the one-legged hero clumped about...
Freedom to Go. "Technically the Immigration Service was not wrong to let the sailors depart," said the International Rescue Committee's Angier Biddle Duke, "but humanly this handling was a mess." Welfare workers thought that Immigration should have stalled the Russian de parture on a pretext, e.g., the Russians had not made out income tax returns, so that the U.S. could find out whether they were victims of coercion. Immigration replied that freedom for an alien to go home is one of the freedoms of the U.S., and that the Russians had not complained of coercion...
...Superior Oil's President Howard B. Keck was not responsible for the specifics, but he showed "remarkable laxity" in delegating the expenditure of his "personal funds." As for mild Senator Case, who has never quite squared himself with the Senate leadership for calling attention to the whole mess, the committee could muster up only the lamest kind of praise: "The committee does not intend to cast any reflection upon Senator Case...
Always expert at the often harder task of ending a short story, Novelist Bates seems not to know how to get out of the double mess he has contrived, and put The Sleepless Moon to sleep. But in the last extremity, there is a classic way out for all novelists in a jam, and Bates uses it. The tavern wench dies of an abortion, and unhappy Melford is let off his hook. Frankie runs out on Constance, but she is still hooked in the heart, and pitches herself from the church tower. What this trite tale of love and death...