Search Details

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


Usage:

Though Miss Turner's peaches-&-cream face is void of any marks of endeavor, she is discovered in a Western boom town. So is "Candy" Johnson (Mr. Gable), a gay con man who talks himself into and out of control of the frontier town. Although Lana is obviously overyoung to handle anyone of Actor Gable's ilk, she marries him (with reform in her eye) for better or worse. She gets worse and likes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...beautiful young waif, Dolores. The saintly prioress soon finds she has got more than she bargained for. Dolores' passionate influence is like a spark among the dry tinder of the convent. The nuns work hard, rise early and sleep in their own coffins, but some of them are overyoung to be the brides of heaven. Among these, Dolores' influence seems sinister if not definitely devilish. The prioress thinks she can make her into a good nun. But then young Pedro comes prowling around the walls, sees Dolores, and the fat is in the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From an Old Mine | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

| 1 |