Word: tireder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"My sharpest memory of the week is of that official, so tired that his voice trembled, quietly telling the inside story of disaster in his cold unlighted office. That night when I got home for a late supper, I was scared witless by a BBC voice saying down the hall...
No solution exists, except possibly in the gradually developing taste of the musical comedy public. Already tired of crudely cooked offerings audiences have demanded more subtlety in musicals. "Annie Get Your Gun," while based on old formulae, displays great advances in technique and sophistication of method. And with its appetite...
Economists, No. The ploughman has a better chance than the lean, tired man who says apologetically: "I think I could learn how to prune vines or do some kind of farm work. I haven't had the experience, of course, because I have always been a professor of economics...
The simple-mindedness of the story is saved once in a while by Steinbeck's incidental touches. His chapters on Alice's solitary jag and on Camille's tired parrying of Louie, a diffident but brutal tinhorn Don Juan, are clever little stories in themselves. He writes...
Last week brought another kind of shock to Britain's plain people and to its Laborite Ministers. Ellen Wilkinson, the fiery, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) Minister of Education, was dead. To her colleagues in the Cabinet, many of whom were tired or ailing, her death at 55 was...