Word: sorting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...control tower the plotters laid out their instruments-parallel, slide, caliper, is-was." (TIME, Dec. 25, p. 20). This is (was) beyond me. And I thought I was (is) a sort of authority on the tools of mathematics. Come now, what the hell...
...walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
...newspaper: "Decent people are curious to know why it requires three weeks to determine whether a convicted pander should be brought back to complete a sentence ... for one of the most despicable, filthy offenses of which a man can be found guilty. . . . There is something decidedly rotten when this sort of thing continues indefinitely. . . . The public . . . is beginning to understand what this rotten thing is: THE BRAZENLY ACKNOWLEDGED ALLIANCE BETWEEN CRIMINALS AND CORRUPT POLITICIANS...
...Gericault, together with a few traces of Matisse, coupled with the photographic accuracy that characterizes any good magazine illustrator. And it is lamentable that a few of his paintings are good. I say lamentable because those pieces which do show real talent only serve to accentuate the weak sort of eclecticism with which the majority of his work is stamped...
Well, word crawls in that Red is jumping back in the arena with the sort of band that Mildred Bailey has been trying to get him to assemble for a long time--wood-winds, rhythm section, Red--and no brass...