Search Details

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


Usage:

Last week U. S. cartoonists had an exciting new problem-Wendell Willkie. Their first task was to collect their wits. Then they squinted hard at Willkie's big, slightly stooped frame, his mastiff face (it would "batter" well, they observed), a mouth whose long, stubborn upper lip twinkled at the corners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Problem in Caricature | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

South Carolina's grumpy, mastiff-faced old Ellison DuRant Smith may be the Senate's No. 1 mossback, but South Carolina loves him still, treasures him as a precious relic. South Carolinians affectionately acknowledge that "Cotton Ed"*opposes progress in almost every conceivable form. But by last week many veteran Smithies had become anxious over the opposition of Sixth-Term Senator Smith to a Third Term for President Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: Cotton Ed Serves Notice | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

Looking like a disconsolate mastiff, Mr. Wagner used the slide rule of economic statistics. His points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Wagner on the Wagner Act | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...first six months of World War II produced little poetry, but by last week Great Britain and her Dominions had begun to relieve the shortage. Available were several categories, beginning with mastiff-eyed Poet Laureate John Masefield's ode To the Australians Coming to Help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Cheers & Tears | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

First | | 1 | | Last