Word: totteringly
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...going. Unexpectedly discharged from the Navy, the sailor turns up grinning at the door before his wife has even made the bed in their new apartment. To complicate matters, there are Janitor Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, who operates the apartment with frenetic care; an English-language-butchering Rumanian siren (Audrey Totter); a grave young pot tycoon named Freddie Potts (Hume Cronyn') ; and a rival potter (Reginald Owen...
...what new norms of logic does Archbishop Mitty conclude that the News is bigoted because it reveals that a Catholic clergyman is capable of sin? If the Church in the archdiocese of San Francisco is so decrepit that it will totter if it becomes known that one of its priests woos John Barleycorn, Pope Pius would do well to appoint a capable successor to Archbishop Mitty...
Meoe, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin. Men find it hard to read the true meaning of most things, but the hardest of all to read is the handwriting on the wall-which becomes legible to everybody only when the walls begin to totter and collapse. In mid-January, 1941, under the impact of Nazi bombs, the walls were falling on all sides of the 221 Anglican prelates, priests and laymen who under the sponsorship of Dr. Temple, then Archbishop of York, huddled in greatcoats in the unheated rooms of Malvern College. It was not only British walls that were crashing. Under...
...takes shape. Foreign News looks back into the past and forward into the future much further than World Battlefronts-to give you background and help you see the probable course of campaigns to come. Foreign News keeps you posted on the politics behind the fronts-and on the teeter-totter of Axis and Allied influence in the capitals of the world's neutrals...
...Stevens has 3,000 rooms (one man could spend eight years in it without twice sleeping in the same room), 1,500 employes, 40 miles of carpets. Overbuilt and overcapitalized (cost: $28,000,000) by its promoters, Ernest J. and Raymond W. Stevens, the Stevens began to totter in the first tremors of 1929. Panicky, the Stevens brothers began sluicing funds from their father's insurance company, Illinois Life. But this was just a bag of peanuts to Jumbo, and in 1932 the Stevens and Illinois Life were both in receivership. After the brothers were indicted for embezzling...