Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Hurricane blew into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to redeem himself. His mother had stopped nagging, he said. Like a good boy, Tommy had been trotting ten miles daily on the Rockaway Beach boardwalk. In Stillman's Gym he had been pushing sparring partners around as he polished up his wild assortment of slaps, jabs, backhanded cuffs and spectacular double uppercuts. He had bothered little with the big bag. "Phooey to that," said Hurricane. "I like to box with guys. A big bag can't punch back. I like to get hit. Then I fight...
...TIME going to redeem itself in the eyes of my Norwegian wife for moving Norway over into Sweden, as shown by R. M. Chapin...
...nightly. One, The Little Hut, was brought to the United States last month after a three year run in Britain. It lasted about a week o Broadway. Another of the trio, T.S. Eliot's The Confidential Clerk, is being readied for a New York premiere this season, possibly to redeem British drama in the eyes of this country. By the time Eliot's verse play arrives, however, it may have a task of double redemption. The third London hit, Escapade, is now on display in Boston and it is as glibly boring as The Little...
...elevated now to the awful dignity of a political philosophy and inspired with the terrible ambition of world conquest-divide not a nation but the world against itself. And at this precise time again there has come the summons of the American people calling upon the Republican Party to redeem the hopes of the past and to save the promise of the future...
...their children to marry only when they were long past the age of chastity. They were so shameless that instead of retiring to a dark corner to eat, they engorged grossly at a public table, where all & sundry might witness the repellent act of mastication. Nothing, concluded Grandma, could redeem Menen's Irish mother (to whom she always referred flatly as "the Englishwoman," much irking Mrs. Menen). but if Aubrey wanted to become a true son of Malabar and inherit the family wealth, it was not too late. He had only to quaff a goblet of sacred...