Word: swine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which a planter's daughter, aged 2½, was riding. They hit the driver and the car went into the ditch. Then the bandits came up, shot the little girl through the head at close range, killed the cook boy who tried to protect her. "Swine -just swine!" exclaimed a British official, and the planters were even more bitter...
...parliamentary procedure which has been revised at intervals ever since. It includes a list of insulting words and phrases which the Speaker has ruled unsuitable for use in House of Commons debate. Among the banned expressions: insulting dog, behaving like a jackass, cad, caddishness, scurrilous, vicious vulgar, dishonest, swine, corrupt, criminal, blether (as applied to a speech), Pecksniffian cant. Last week the fifteenth edition of "Erskine May" was published; it showed four new epithets barred since the war's end: not a damned one of you opposite, stool pigeons, cheat, bastard...
...Stoska of the Metropolitan Opera gave a rich voice and the appropriate gypsy-like gestures to the part of the Magyar princess. Raymond Smolover is almost as effective in the title role. Walter Aikman and Frederic Gwynne are both outstanding; Aikman for his perfect diction and gestures as "the swine king," and Gwynne for his witty characterization of the country lawyer, replete with lifted eyebrows and sly smile. Gwynne's facial antics keep the audience's attention for several scenes, and his sole in "Ninana" is delightful, despite his untrained voice...
...talked a blue streak, some of it the plain vulgarity of his generation, and lorded it crudely over his congregation: "You ungrateful beasts, you are not worthy of the treasure of the gospel. If you don't improve, I will stop preaching rather than cast pearls before swine...
...mammal that exists today," is 39 million years older than million-year-old man. Boars charge about wildly through ancient mythology; one of them killed handsome Adonis, another was captured alive after a mighty struggle with hefty Hercules. About 5,000 years ago, the Chinese were already eating domestic swine, along with dogs and fowl. When France's Louis XI was sick, only a troupe of "gaily garbed" pigs dancing to bagpipe music succeeded in curing his melancholy...