Word: unlit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Mouthing an unlit cigar, Lewis swung his arms in a swimmer's breast stroke, swatting Jap ships down. He would sweep on southward, he had told the open-mouthed diners, until all Japan's conquests had been retaken and the Japs' power utterly destroyed. Then he would attend to Germany. "Then would come the vengeance," Lewis thundered...
Ronald Glenn Callvert, 68, oldest of the three, has been on the Oregonian since 1909, was assistant and managing editor until he became editorial writer in 1931. Bushy-browed, kindly, he hunts & pecks his tax and fiscal editorials at furious speed on a portable typewriter while chewing an unlit cigar. (All editorialists, like Oregonian reporters, buy their own typewriters.) The story is that Editor Callvert in 1938 was about to be fired because he was too expensive. The idea was dropped when he won the Pulitzer Prize for best editorial of the year...
...Vagabond sucked on his unlit pipe and began to wonder. The author of the text he had just put aside had a great deal of information about the Middle Ages, undoubtedly remarkable, and perhaps even useful, but could that author transform his dry, textbook style into such sonorous periods and ringing phrases as were went to keep even the drowsiest Freshman from nodding at nine o'clock in the morning? And even if his author could deliver such a lecture, thought Vag, could he hold to the measured pace of his biweekly oration through a series of shrill bursts from...
Above a fjordlike arm of Lake Lucerne one night last week a little group of serious-faced Swiss gathered round an unlit bonfire. Just at midnight three men with torches shouldered through the dark crowd, lit the fire. Then in rapid succession other men lit torches from the fire, ran with them into the night...
...flair for guessing what others are thinking and hiding what he is, Yosuke Matsuoka is ideally suited to ride the second biggest saddle in a near-totalitarian regime. In his own person he symbolizes the collapse of the ideal of collective security: it was he who, with an unlit cigar clenched between his teeth, imperiously beckoned to the Japanese delegates in the great Hall of the League...