Search Details

Word: twould (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...sketch and some detail is nice, it does not hold together, the centre is a confusing mass, it has no mural quality and is devoid of any feeling. I would suggest Mr. Mechau make less trips to the garbage can. As to Kenneth Adams' Rural Free Delivery 'twould do for the Ladies' Home Journal; John Steuart Curry's panels might both be called "comedy" - so silly and trite they are; the Winold Reiss murals would pass as fair advertisement and Gerald Foster's Molly Pitcher as a thriller illustration. However Daniel Boza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...irate Louis the Whosis. Elsewhere you state that hurly is at least a thousand years old and the potato was not known in Europe until the 16th century. If you must link the potato with something you might tie it to the American game la crosse; 'twould be more accurate, less cheaply vaudevillian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | Next