Search Details

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


Usage:

Jean Arthur, at 37, still is unexcelled at the art of portraying pretty young things; none of Hollywood's starlets can come within a whoop and a holler of her perfection. McCrea, whose "hand-somest pair of masculine legs" are revealed in all their pristine splendor for feminine onlookers, is...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

As it must to all reformers, a severe trial of patience came last week to New York City's busybody Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. The Mayor was determined to be wartime guardian of his voters' morals-no matter how unappreciative the voters might be. The results were discouraging.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Pilgrim's Progress | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Busybody. In Baltimore, within ten days, three-year-old Joe DeAngelis broke his leg, cut it, got seven stitches in it, tangled his left foot in his tricycle wheel, got eight stitches in it, fell off a table and fractured his arm, broke a glass and stepped on it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Nobody could deny that the Little Flower was one of the world's half-dozen busiest men, and far & away the world's busiest busybody. Managing the earth's most citified city would be a full-time job for Superman. LaGuardia tosses it off in a bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tigers Have Nine Lives | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

She is beginning to be afraid that Mother's Day has got completely out of hand. She still sends violent telegrams to President Roosevelt, occasionally walks round Philadelphia streets carrying a black satchel full of publicity releases and pictures of herself taken shortly after her mother's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Mother's Day, Inc. | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Previous | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | Next