Word: sticking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...lady who'd so stick her neck out Must be, on her own, quite a deck...
...dinghy by the jetty." But the essence of On Approval's charm is not in such familiar bravura; it is in the muted perfection of Miss Lillie's general performance, and in the excellence of the supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink with his former butler, or ribs "daring" pictures in a male bathtub scene which is the nakedest thing outside a travelogue in years. It is the tone in which Roland Culver murmurs "Many congratulations" after Mrs. Wislack's announcement that...
Later, TIME Correspondent William Gray went in, poked about, saw this aftermath of battle: "A Filipino woman, carried past on a stretcher, muttered: 'I am so pleased.' Two Chinese boys came carrying a litter with four small boys on it. One, maybe two years old, with stick-like brown arms and legs and glazed eyes that stared, was dead, or dying...
...Publicity handouts called him the "personal acquaintance of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for more than 17 years [who] has had more interviews and discussions with the German Chancellor than any other American. . . ." When Hitler swept across France in 1940, Von Wiegand, with his thick spectacles and his gold-handled walking stick, was flown by the Germans to Paris...
...tutted the Vancouver Sun: "If there is an explanation we can only hope that it will be announced quickly because the longer mud is allowed to stick, even on a uniform, the harder it is to remove...