Word: rocker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afternoon the procession continued: East 65th Street to Washington Square, Washington Square to 65th Street. Mrs. Roosevelt carried her prints, two Chinese lamps, a bowl of glass daisies. The vans disgorged their cargoes: an old cane-bottomed rocker that the President likes, a walnut highboy, a high chair, a barrel with a box of soap chips sticking...
Classic sequence: Roxie's farmer father, informed by long distance that his daughter may lose her life, returns unruffled to his rocker, meditates awhile before observing to his wife: "They're going to hang Roxie." Replies the mother with equal equanimity: "What did I tell...
...quits. And then he goes to a pub and gets lit and there he meets Will Fyffe, who is fat and so Scotch that his burr sticks onto him after he's finished talking. now Will is an engineer and he acts like he's off his rocker, but he's really only a genius. He dreams about steam engines at night. So these two get together and the "Dog Star" sails across the Atlantic. Steam all the way, mind you. That's about all there is to this "Rulers of the Sea" flick, and it's not enough. Sometimes...
...poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely helpless as when the gadabout from down the street calls. "May I come in?" asks Ted. "I see you are alone. . . . Now I'll just take this rocker here by the radio and chat awhile. . . . What lovely new curtains. . . . Well...
Winthrop outplayed the Funsters all through the encounter, and was scored on only when Ed Hindle, Kicker, forget that he backed up in using his rocker kick and stepped over the back of the end zone while punting...