Word: forbearing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though denied the use of their parents' names, most of the lyrics in Whether a Dove or Seagull have a determinedly casual stance which suggests a male forbear: U. S. Poet Robert Frost, to whom the authors acknowledge an obvious debt in their dedication. Like him, they refuse to sentimentalize their fondness for nature, insist on its hostility to humans as well as its charm. But while robust Poet Frost nevertheless finds permanent solace among his Vermont hills and pastures, in the minds of Poets Warner & Ackland the bryony and woodbine of which they are fond are entangled with...
Like its journalistic forbear. Ballyhoo concentrates on kidding advertisements. When Comedian Howard is chief concentrator, it is funny. There are few good tunes (one of them: "While We Have Bromo Seltzer in Our Love Nest") to make Ballyhoo another Band Wagon, which it tries hard...
...note by TIME for Sept. 15 that Zona Gale is married to William L. Breese. I suppose only a couple of hundred other bright persons will write you about it, so I modestly forbear even to suggest a fitting caption...
...statue was so close a likeness to the illustrious forbear whose weather beaten bronze presides over the old quadrangle that watchers were convinced that the original had been removed from his pedestal to participate in the event. The imitation, undoubtedly formed of plaster, was painted in the exact colors of green and grey which are seen on the original. Of the many features in the parade, which encompassed 40,000 participants, none aroused more comment than the amazing likeness of the founder of the University...
Jean Charles Millet, 32, of Barbizon, France, was extremely fond of his grandfather. Who, indeed, would not be fond of such a forbear as the late great Jean Francois Millet, painter of The Angelus and Man With Hoe? So fond was Grandson Jean Charles that last week he was ignominiously thrust into a jail in Melun. For his fondness sprang from the fact that he had been able to use his grandfather's illustrious name in a scheme to bilk the public...