Word: whirling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tide has ebbed, leaving her stranded high & dry with two children and a dim flibbertigibbet of a husband (Ralph Forbes) who seems almost to encourage his wolfish crony Lord Rockingham (Basil Rathbone) to lick his chops at her. Dona is sick of London's mad social whirl, sick, sick, as she tells her husband, of "the stupid futile life we lead here." Finally, one dawn, she packs up and flounces off with her children to their country estate on the Cornish coast...
...spurred ahead with the end in sight. Most of us just hit "Thirty-seven more days to go--unk!" with more stress, but Tommy Donovan took things in hand by taking Nancy-- the Foreign Resources grader, blond with freckles known previously only to Kallaus and Trudeau out for a whirl at the Totem Pole...
Beyond the War. If Monty has any plans for after the war, he has not talked about them. In the light of his vast popularity in Britain, his keen mind and glowing personality, it is not surprising that there has been some speculation whether Monty may not take a whirl in politics...
...Chamber of Commerce and No. 1 evangelist for free enterprise, last week continued to baffle (and please) the Russian people. To young Eric (47), this trip to Russia was obviously a major highlight in his rocketing career (TIME, March 27). Enthusiastically he called it "a grand whirl...
Thus did Koga, a small, taciturn man with an egg-shaped head, pass from the stage. But he left it in a whirl of mystery more impressive than his life...