Search Details

Word: whit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Although the backstairs conniving of some of his friends had become embarrassingly public, President Truman's official expression did not change a whit. His look indicated that he didn't smell a thing wrong. He was his usual blithe self, having a good time making proclamations, rewarding deserving Democrats, and entertaining a gardenful of pretty girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Terrible Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...Elizabeth Taylor is a great beauty. She is a perfect type of the Black Irish. She has heavy black hair and brows that are also black and thick, but not a whit too thick to frame her large, luxuriantly lashed blue eyes, which darken into violet in the least shadow. Her complexion has been described by an ecstatic publicity man as "a bowl of cream with a rose floating in it." Cameramen have paid her Hollywood's ultimate compliment to beauty: "She doesn't have a bad angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Big Dig | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Churchill preserved a dignified silence. Although more & more people felt that it was time for the West to establish some sort of clear-cut relationship with Franco Spain, the Caudillo's invective had won him no friends in Britain, and his coos had moved Washington not a whit. Said one madrileño last week: "We are alone, and always will be-until," he added hopefully, "something happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Don't Ask for Love | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Bunnies grabbed at their last chance, and doubles by whit Calkins and Fabe Bradbury drove in the fifth and last Leverett tally. Don Hare, of the Hutch, made the only other extra base bit of the game, a triple...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Nine Tops Bunnies; Puritans Win | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...unashamed reworking of a formula that has been familiar to Joan Crawford's fans for a couple of decades. The tired old plot is in no way improved by Joan's new hairdo, which is blonde and unbecoming. Sydney Greenstreet, with his lashless, inscrutable stare, is no whit different from what he has been in a dozen similar roles. As usual, he gets the dirtiest end of the dialogue. Sample, as Joan pulls a gun on him: "I should have spit you out the first time you lit between my teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 2, 1949 | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | Next