Word: suppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known. After a five-mile run he breakfasts on prunes, two eggs, a lamb chop, tea and toast. Then comes a mile walk, a nap until noon (he eats no lunch) and seven rounds' workout in the afternoon. For supper he does not wolf a 3-lb. steak (as Billy Conn used to), but settles for a smaller one. He looks lighter than his 196 Ibs. Most remarkable about him is the fact that he seems to get better just when most boxers get worse-after...
Only shift in the day's schedule came when cocktails and buffet supper, featuring an octet of bag-pipers, was moved from Sever Quadrangle to Memorial Hall...
Guitry's business in Lyon was the gala premiéere of his newest film, The Comedian. It turned out to be one of his usual hits. When the show was over, he and his leading lady, Lina Marconi, were driven away for a gay supper. At the lowered barrier of a railway crossing, however, men sprang from the darkness. Said their leader: "We are terribly sorry, Monsieur Sacha Guitry, but we are men of the Resistance and we think it advisable that you come with...
Boss Tweed (Vincent Price). When Rake Tweed entices Deanna down to an intimate supper, papa tags along and spoils everything. It all came right in the end; and that is why, today, we have PM, democracy, and the 10? subway fare...
...points out quite graphically is that the indifferent brutality of police-questioning is a universally-practiced form of inhumanity, and that police frequently become so hardened by their jobs that they will go to any length to finish up a case so that they, too, can go home to supper. "Jenny Lamour" shows how an innocent man can be driven to mental-collapse by the authorized torture methods of the police. In this case, the innocent man would almost have been better off guilty...