Word: umpteen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mundane aspects of his work, which sometimes invited criticism. He scorned rehearsals, frequently played hooky and provoked one conductor to waspishly observe that, if nothing else, one could depend on Melchior to make the same mistakes. While that judgment was harsh, it is true that during one of his umpteen performances of Tristan, Melchior fell asleep onstage, waking only when the mighty Flagstad fell over him at the conclusion of the Liebestod. But his dedication to his art was such that when he fractured his big toe during a performance of Die Walküre at the Met, he managed...
...then Harvard-Brown swimming meets may be a thing of the past. Gambril has tried hard to drop such swimming nonentities as Brown and Springfield the Crimson's opponent next week, which, incidentally, has never beaten a Harvard swimming team in umpteen meetings from the schedule, and they may be replaced by the likes of Tennessee or Indiana...
...Quixote's virginal Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha, Aldonza, the scullery maid, gets a rather rough going-over from a rabble of lustful admirers. So much the worse for Sophia Loren that Director Arthur (Love Story) Hiller, currently making the movie in Rome, is a perfectionist. After umpteen retakes of the strenuous scene, Sophia was pleading sotto voce with the extras: "Take it easy, boys. I'm black and blue all over...
...knew him when he was a graduate student at M. I. T .... And though I'm not exactly known as a Republican, a labor-management dispute is no respecter of political parties." Is the government a third party in his mediations? "The trouble is," he grumbles, "the government is umpteen parties. Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Housing, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-they are all interested parties...
Esquire made this disclosure in an umpteen-page section about what we hip college youths are up to, and even provided photographic proof...