Word: pokes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though Republicans still called the measure "a pig in a poke" and "as imperfect as a bill can possibly be," the turn of events in Korea had improved its chances of passing. The House was almost sure to approve. Even the Senate, which has been dead set against an excess-profits tax in this session, might put a tax of some sort through by Christmas...
...Speaking about your newspapers, I did not know what I was in for when I began buying your comics for my children. At all times of the day my five-year-old son will poke one of them in my face and ask me to explain it to him ... It seems crazy from the beginning. How am I to explain this mad whirlwind of animals rushing about in cars, getting entangled in telephone wires, or being blown to bits by explosives...
...university's tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
Fred Gwynne's only contribution to the issue is the fine cover, and the cartoons are far below the quality of those in recent issues. With the exception of a small poke at the Phillips Brooks House clothes drive, none of them merited reprinting. Certainly there have been some funnier attempts from the 'Poon's drawing boards in the past than this collection indicates...
...Dali poke holes in his figures and make everything float? "Modern physics," the artist explained with a twitch of his delicate handlebar mustache, "has revealed to us increasingly the dematerialization which exists in all nature and that is the reason why the material body of my Madonna does not exist and why in place of a torso you find a tabernacle 'filled with Heaven.' But while everything floating in space denotes spirituality it also represents our concept of the atomic system-today's counterpart of divine gravitation...