Search Details

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


Usage:

...were attained by slicing cantaloupes with a cleaver. Fingers were scissored off by substituting pencils for fingers. Dropping a raw egg on a plate simulated perfectly the blup of an eye-gouging. Flowing corn syrup furnished the voop-vulp of freely flowing blood. When a mechanical giant pulled a wretch's arm off, the leg of a cold storage chicken was pulled off beside the mike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mouths South | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Northampton constabulary is on the job these days. Even Paul Revere would have a hard time getting through the town at more than a slow canter. The little yellow triangles with their glass-lettered '25 m.p.h." mean what they say nowadays, and woe to the luckless wretch who presses the accelerator down to the floor and watches the needle creep slowly up to twenty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reasonable and Proper | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...chatting gaily about people and occurrences at home which are very interesting and amusing. As she talks Vag looks at her closely. Can this be the little girl he used to go to Sunday School with? And blush with at dancing class? Surety this isn't the same little wretch whose--yes, whose bloomers used to droop so sadly years ago? But it is. She has certainly improved. Vag admits, so on the way out he buys her a huge chrysanthemum. Then, into the Charger--crank, crank. And off to Cambridge--clank, clank. Vag glows. Even the Charger seems less...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...bench and became Chief Justice, but not for long. U. S. Senator David Colbreth Broderick was head of the Democratic Party's Abolitionist wing in the State, and Chief Justice Terry was for the South and slavery. The Senator called the Chief Justice a crook and miserable wretch, so Terry stepped down from the bench to fight a duel. Jittery Broderick put his bullet in the ground; Terry put his through Broderick's breast. A jury acquitted him of murder, but he was still struggling to rebuild his Stockton law practice when the Civil War broke out. Wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Mad Memories | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...Press - "just like in America." In his summing up Justice Singleton told the jury that the Crown had built up and fitted together "the strongest case possible on circumstantial evidence." The verdict of guilty was a blow to Britain's outstanding criminal lawyer, Norman Birkett, K.C. Finally, the wretch found guilty in "Britain's Goriest Murder Case" was a particularly good example of the risks run by overeducating in Britain Indian subjects of the Emperor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Dreadful and Gruesome | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

Previous | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | Next