Search Details

Word: fining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...becoming an actor What has inspired this transformation, Heaven only knows, but "Remember?" is a darn good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole picture is a thoroughly delightful surprise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...suppose they have for dances, necking, and 3.2 beer, which anyway are old, but incidental pastimes on any college campus? How much more constructive it might have been to mention that our Student Senate is a model which self-governing organizations all over the country have copied, ditto our fine and unusual fraternity system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...President talked, smoked, worked over his papers, Artist Valderrama studied the President's special color for an hour and fifteen minutes. Then he beamed, nodded, found the President "very good-very natural." When reporters asked him the color of President Roosevelt: "Natural rose with a touch of fine grey," replied admiring Dr. Valderrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Color | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...terror and hardship. It came at a time when the Admiral was at the height of his fortunes: his fleet was big and well-equipped (although his flagship La Capitana, nicknamed La Galante by the sailors, was so slow that it held up the others) and the weather was fine, the northwest trades strong, and the reckonings true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Rediscovery | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...seems obvious, though, that Vergeichik will do his team more good in the 50,100, and 440, or in the medley, 50, and 100, than by swimming the 220 against the Crimson captain and Frannie Powers, both of whom are fine competitors...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Columbia Optimistic Before Its Battle With Unbeaten Mermen Here Tonight | 2/10/1940 | See Source »

First | Previous | 721 | 722 | 723 | 724 | 725 | 726 | 727 | 728 | 729 | 730 | 731 | 732 | 733 | 734 | 735 | 736 | 737 | 738 | 739 | 740 | 741 | Next | Last