Search Details

Word: caked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, May 24, 8 p.m. EDT). Bob totes his one-liners to Paris to celebrate the French Revolution's bicentennial. Bet he can't top "Let them eat cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 29, 1989 | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...course, winning my first Grammy was a tremendous thrill, but being voted as Eclectic Quoter of the Year really takes the cake," Polsky said...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Final Thoughts and Quotes | 5/19/1989 | See Source »

MYTH When the poor rioted over the price of bread, Marie Antoinette cried, "Let them eat cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite? | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...crowd in the council chambers rose to sing "Happy Birthday" to Vellucci, as city employees brought in a cake and a large bouquet of flowers and balloons...

Author: By Kirsten L. Parkinson, | Title: City Council Reviews School Budget Cuts | 4/25/1989 | See Source »

...seem somewhat familiar, for it has long been one of the great narrative legends of modern time, told and retold by Burke, Tocqueville, Carlyle and others. We already know -- don't we? -- about the dim-witted King Louis XVI, about Queen Marie Antoinette's supposedly saying "Let them eat cake," and the ragged mobs cheering as the bloodied guillotine rises and falls in its awful rhythm of retribution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rhythm of Retribution | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Next