Word: toiling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Green Parrot. In A Simple Heart, Flaubert takes a plain-as-rain spinster housemaid and erodes her placid life with tragedies. From dawn to dusk, Felicité slaves for the Aubain family, all of whom take her toil for granted. She loves her young nephew like a son, but he dies at sea. Desolate, she clings to the delicate Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs...
...Cover) When he advances, greasy with makeup, to his daily toil, a motion-picture actor is engulfed-profile, esthetic sensibilities and nervous stomach-in an atmosphere depressingly reminiscent of a submarine dockyard. The sound stage in which he works is as cavernous and gloomy as a wharfside warehouse. The day's set, thrown up in a distant corner as if to dramatize the phoniness and gullibility of man, is bathed in a glare of blue-white light as blinding as that from an arc welder's torch. Half a hundred hairy union men tinker stolidly with furniture, electrical...
...best moments, Operation Ivy gave the viewer a fascinating look into the curious world of atom experimentation. It showed the flat, coral islands of Eniwetok, the test tower rising above the surrounding sea. and, in views of vast test devices, evidence of the enormous toil and expense necessary to prepare for the explosion. The camera (from 50 miles off) showed the mushroom cloud rising through menacing black skies like a great, poisonous-looking gob of whipped cream...
...still thinks of me as a bright young man just down from Cambridge." As opposed to Churchill's inspired high spirits, Butler is, in the words of a friend, "completely unflappable -if a bomb exploded under his desk, he would press a button for his third secretary." Blood, toil, tears and sweat are not for him. Recently he advised a British audience to adopt his own credo: "Do not be elated, never be depressed." But Sir Winston has learned to admire Rab's solid virtues; when Butler presented his first budget, Churchill lumbered to his feet, flourishing...
...Weeks of toil had produced brilliant snow statues in front of each fraternity house. And on the insides all was heat and clean, ready for the weekend blast and the serious business of having the good time that has been planned and looked forward to all fall...