Search Details

Word: sobbing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...suspended the word in the air, limp and profound. "A vegetable," he repeated. "All I have left is a pocket of pennies, little memory pennies." A sound--almost a sob...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color for the 200,000 color-set owners), with a bevy of new performers led by young, moist-eyed Jill Corey, whose vocal renderings come with a lush, built-in sob. On the densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Review | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...Capp at last getting his comeuppance? What did he think of the Saunders-Ernst treatment? Said he: "Unpardonable slander. Something disgraceful, humiliating." Then Capp took his tongue out of his cheek and exposed the feud (sob!) as a hoax. He and Saunders cooked it up last fall in Washington at a meeting of the cartooning clan ("a pretty damn dull profession"). Rapp will go on taking raps for a few weeks until, says Capp, Saunders "casually reveals at the end that I'm not a monster." Confirmed Cartoonist Saunders: "Rapp just follows the public concept of Capp, an egotistical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rap for Capp | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

CONNIE FRANCIS, born Constance Franconero, who broke into a network show with a kid act when she was four, later graduated to the Catskill Borsch circuit-the Concord, Grossinger's, Brown's Hotel. M-G-M Records liked her throaty, sob-ridden voice, changed her name and signed her up. Her first two singles-Freddy and Didn't I Love You Enough? are currently being followed by a bouncy number, Eighteen, and a sad-toned ballad Faded Orchid, which might go over with what the industry calls the "girdle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Hopefuls | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...kind of sob story that most endears Hubble to readers was handed to him not long ago by a housewife who complained that her husband had not spoken to her for ten years-even though she had borne him two children in that time. A Mirror-Pictorial team whisked the couple off to a quiet country inn and spent hours pleading with the husband. The outcome was splashed across the Pictorial's back page. The finale. "Shyly, he turned to his wife and said: 'Hello, love.' Tears of joy filled her eyes. Tenderly he took her hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Bishop of Fleet Street | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next