Word: swingeing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take over the government, even in the present time of crisis, but hesitated to predict the outcome of such an election. "I never believe in being a prophet, still less in being complacent, but it is a fact," he said, "that in recent by-elections there has been a swing away from the conservatives...
...legal brawl shaped up over the estimated $500,000 estate of the late Bandleader Tommy ("The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing") Dorsey (TIME, Dec. 10). At the time of his death at 51, Trombonist Dorsey left his personal affairs in a double muddle: he was about to be divorced from his third wife, ex-Showgirl Jane New Dorsey, and-astonishingly for a man of his means-he left no will. Contestants in the upcoming fight: the third Mrs. Dorsey, who wishes to administer the estate v. two grown children of temperamental Tommy's first marriage, who ask that the estate...
Bing Sings Whilst Bregman Swings (Verve LP). After 22 years of making records for Decca-plus a few before even Decca latched onto him-Bing Crosby steps out with a handful of oldies on a new label, proves himself virtually indestructible. It is only when he tries to swing too high that he begins to. sound...
...James Thomas Flexner points out that Hopper is the one painter of his generation who is "in the air" today. Flexner dares hope aloud that "the old gentleman will be a bridge between today's abstractionism and realism, for sooner or later the pendulum's got to swing back. Hopper's compositions are awfully good in the abstract, you know. Abstractionists respect...
...decidedly the worse) part of the picture. The seducer starts working on his victim in the middle of a junk heap back of the house. ("We could play hide and seek," he slyly suggests, and she replies. "Ah'm not athaletic.") He really gets going in the swing, where the camera closes in on her face while his hands are plainly busy elsewhere ("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so weak"), pushes her toward the brink by the pigpen, and apparently ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that he take...