Word: spun
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...assistants (see FOREIGN RELATIONS). Again, the Hopkins trademark appeared on the brief campaign which boomed OPAdministrator Chester Bowles for Commerce. Now, for any new shifts in the offing, Washington kept its eye on the house in Georgetown, where the unofficial Assistant President of the U.S. still spun his webs...
Then the wheel spun round again, and the darling of the Victorians began coming back into favor. "We may not admire his aims," admitted Poet T. S. Eliot in 1930, "but In Memoriam is great poetry." Now W. H. Auden (The Orators, For the Time Being), most influential of the younger poets, has made a selection of 60 poems from the mass of Tennyson's works, reintroduced them with a sharply critical but respectful preface. Tennyson, says Auden, was really rather stupid, but he had "the finest ear, perhaps, of any English poet." In addition, unlike many of his successors...
...Philadelphia, a crowd of 48,000 watched once-beaten Michigan put Pennsylvania over a barrel, 41-to-19, with reverses, spinners and lateral forward passes -spun from both T and single-wing formations...
...Baltic; the Red armies moved swiftly. Driving down the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga, they crossed the Latvian border, freed the whole mainland of Estonia. In Tallinn, an ice-free port most of the year, work crews began repairs on the harbor installations, the power plant generators spun again, the government of a Soviet Socialist Republic reassembled...
With this tender masterpiece of home-spun comedy, John Van Druten proves to all and sundry that sophistication is not his only forte. It's the heart-warming story of the Hansons, a poor but honest San Francisco family of a generation ago, and it's headed for the land of happy hits...