Word: sweete
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...display looked like a schoolgirl's botany project. The little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's outing in the country, were part of an official report from the China office of UNRRA. The pretty names stood for wild leaves and stems and roots that the peasants of Hunan province (where 5,000,000 face death) have lived on for 40 days...
Last week Sato and Manjome were busy writing a new song. It was titled Lovely, Lovely Sweet...
There can be no resisting the P. T. Barnum quote about a sucker being born every minute unquote: panned by even the most sugary-sweet of Boston's drama critics, a cheap-and not even bawdy-play starring a girl with exaggerated features is filling the Wilbur quite comfortably this week...
...Preacher Gudger," said Ma Conroy, "this here oldest gal o' mine name Roma-jean purely loves to sing. She kin sing a church song low and she kin line it out sweet. . . . Preacher, we purely need that two bits a Sunday you pay yore choir singers. If you can use her I reckon the good Lord shore will love...
...which show the struggle of innocence against meanness-are sincerely felt and, in a lumbering, over-stacked way, sympathetically dramatized. There are some experienced performances, notably those of Messrs. Cronyn and Coburn. There are some pleasant appearances: bashful Tom Drake and Beverly Tyler, a good-looking newcomer with a sweet soprano, and eyes a trifle too tricky for her role. The Solemn High Mass and First Communion will move many-and suggest to others that if cinema carries this sort of thing much farther, theaters will have to be consecrated...