Word: thick
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Duke still rides tall. Trouble is that he doesn't ride often. John Wayne's advancing years (he is 63) are keeping him pretty much out of the thick of things these days. Instead of mixing it up with marauders or running rustlers out of town, the Duke can more often be seen back at the ranch trying to square some domestic difficulty or right a faulty romance. His glorious gun battle with Lucky Ned Pepper's boys in True Grit looks threateningly like a last blast, a melancholy six-gun Gotterdammerung...
Their skin is stiff. Their soles are thick, leaden slabs. Their tongues rival those of aardvarks, and their lightest step can be deafening. It is easy to see why they are called "monsters." And it is all but impossible to miss them. Great, galumphing, paralyzingly ugly, monsters are nonetheless the most visible shoes around today...
...Angeles' Jay Jordan Shoe Stores. Jordan's does, including a high wedgie sandal with heavy straps, all in snakeskin, that prompted one potential buyer to say "I'd rather wear the boxes they came in." The bestseller at Bonwit Teller in Boston is a broad-banded, thick-soled platform sandal. The hottest number at Chicago's Thayer McNeil is a dark-stained wooden shoe that turns up at toe and heel and stays on because of leather straps nailed hard and fast over the instep...
...Dane sailing in the service of Czar Peter the Great. His 1741 voyage was soon followed by Peter's prornyshleniki (explorer-colonizers), who swept eastward through the gale-tormented Aleutian Islands with the rapacity of conquistadors. Though Peter yearned for an empire, his colonizers found only humble Aleuts and thick-furred sea otters. By 1801, the Aleuts had been decimated by harsh servitude and the animals virtually wiped out by overhunting. In 1867, Russia decided to sell Alaska in order to raise funds for wars with England. To Secretary of State William H. Seward, the land seemed a steal...
Rather untypically for Shaw, the play is filled with incidents that come thick and fast, and that incorporate a lot of energetic physical action. Its three acts are rather short (adding up to a running-time of only an hour and three-quarters in this performance); and if in the writing they couldn't be equally good, it was lucky that the second act came our better than the first, and the third better than the second-rather than the other way around...