Search Details

Word: admirerers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Bright & White. Of all the provincial delegation gathered at Jaipur, the Madrasis were the strictest adherents to Congress rules. Their leading crusader is a 45-year-old bacheloi named Avinashilingam Chettiar, Minister of Education for Madras province. A great admirer of the late Mahatma Gandhi, Chettiar invariably wears a jibba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Censorious Bachelor | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Every Girl Should Be Married (RKO Radio) describes the husband-hunting safari of a gawky young shop girl (Betsy Drake) who wants a husband to sit in a "big crunchee chair . . . so kind of pipee and bookee" beside the log fire (probably smokee). Her chosen prey is a morose baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

As a postulant for Holy Orders, as a graduate of Harvard, as a veteran of the 1st Division, as an admirer of Lincoln, I cannot believe that a state, useless tablet or plaque will serve to memorialize the sacrifices of my class mates and friends. Let us by all means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense of the Owl | 12/7/1948 | See Source »

Tallulah has always moved casually among the great and the near-great.* When she was a child in a Washington suburb, a kindly gentleman named Cordell Hull let her ride his ponies. She has swapped cabled pleasantries with her friend Winston Churchill. An admirer, Lord Beaverbrook, once gave her a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Grandma Moses (TIME, Sept. 6), chipper as ever on her 88th birthday, cut a cake decorated with scenes inspired by Grandma Moses' paintings. With a helping hand from Admirer Norman Rockwell, who also paints, after his fashion, she struck a pose that even her most critical dealer would accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Previous | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | 163 | 164 | 165 | 166 | 167 | 168 | 169 | 170 | 171 | Next