Word: richardson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Yard: le, Gilmartin; lt, Nozak, Hart; lg, Ingram, Church; c, Harper, Richardson; rg, Ripley, Best; rt, Domini; re, Richards, McMurray, Camick; qb, Woodruff; lhb, Thayer, Shaw, Brown; rhb, Skinner, Parker, Reed; fb, Fodor, Levine, Currier...
...Kansas campus glittered with students' new cars. Never before had Lawrence seen so many convertibles and custom jobs; never before had there been such traffic jams. A glimpse at license plates told Kansans where most of the shiny cars came from-the rich western wheat counties. Kenneth Richardson, a 24-year-old student, told how he got his green 1947 Buick convertible: "During the summer I hired a crew for two combines and folowed the wheat harvest from Oklahoma to Canada. We made plenty...
Pritchett is most at home writing about the English tradition of picaresque heroes and prurient heroines. The 17th and 18th Centuries, he believes, produced literary techniques which later novelists have been wise to adopt. Smollett developed the physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the "principle of procrastinated rape [which] is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many...
Thomas Mitchell, moving into the title role created in London by Ralph Richardson, is mournfully inadequate. Instead of making the inspector the mysterious, dominating figure later events show him to be, he is almost friendly in spots. Poor direction may account for a large part of the peculiarly false emphasis maintained almost to the very end, for the production does not seem to wake up to the fact that it is a thriller until too late...
Dunster: le, Parker; lt, Knight, Papleacos; lg, Berkeley, Roy; c, Weeks; rg, Heller, Richardson; rt, Wesen, Coyne; re, Graham, Smith; qb, Guiney; lhb, Manning, Aldrich, Jackson; rhb, Schneider, Dann; fb, Rich, MacDonald...