Search Details

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


Usage:

...capper is another of O'Callahan's offerings: "Harvard's nice, but B.U.'s great." On this night, and in this sport, there is no one to offer a dissenting opinion...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: O'Callahan Knew It All Along: 'Harvard's Nice, B.U.'s Great' | 3/13/1976 | See Source »

...capper to the series of episodes comes near film's end. An instructor is demonstrating the proper way to dispatch a Cong with the use of a blackjack or the victim's own helmet...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: On WGBH Tonight: Slogging Through to 'Nam | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

...Capper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 19, 1969 | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...Gloria to hold up and put down, and she delightedly pounces on a waifish little girl somebody brought, with so much hair, she explains, "it was impossible to see its face without trespassing." The fact that the waif died of drug withdrawal the next day is merely the perfect capper for Gloria's account of the evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Laughing in the Dark | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

Pretty Polly, the first of these three medium-length tales, is that rare bird, a story that celebrates the joys of breaking taboos without ever once dishing out comeuppance griefs. Mrs. Capper's Birthday is a gentle portrait of a World War II widow who has never quite adjusted to life without "Fred." Me and the Girls is a grim little account of the last reflections of a third-rate homo sexual entertainer dying of cancer. Not the gay Coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Mar. 26, 1965 | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Next