Word: threading
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sending students abroad must be discovered. Here one finds intimately connected education, peace, and all the other worth-while ideals of mankind. As a stitch in the vast fabric of human events, these student ambassadors, quantitatively considered, represent little. But when many such stitches are woven together in a thread, the direction of events may be changed...
Chairman and guiding spirit of the Guild is diminutive, elegant Dress Manufacturer Maurice Rentner. Mr. Rentner writes most of the descriptive copy for his own little fashion magazine, Quality Street. Born in Poland, he started his career in the Manhattan dress market as an errand boy carrying thread to shirtwaist makers. He now owns a manufacturing firm with six factories, makes dresses retailing from $55 up. Mr. Rentner says the court fight now threatening his Guild is at bottom an effort by retailers to escape the Guild's stabilizing policies on discounts and returns, that the question of style...
...point of view--new at least in a serious work for adults. With but a few digressions, the point of view is the eye of a fox, a fox traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with brave objectivity the final breakdown of the old plantation system...
...suddenly apparent in one paragraph. Peter's life is like a series of vividly coloured bits of film in his own mind. His memory is the filter through which every new emotion is perceived. Friesen's book is a series of magnificently complete little pictures, strung together on the thread of a man's life, unified by the filter which is unobtrusively transposed on the running film...
...humor of the distinguished pair: Ginger's candid pertness and Fred's urbane, nonchalant thrusts. In this picture they go through a rather desultory courtship, which might amuse those who enjoy witnessing embarrassment, but can hardly satisfy those who look for the crisp and the bright. The other thread of romance between Randolph Scott and Harris Hilliard, adds but little...