Search Details

Word: coffeeshops (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...discreet accompaniment of a string ensemble. Small wonder, therefore, that an undersized, untweedy man wearing blue jeans, a grey fedora and a blue polka-dot handkerchief over the lower part of his face, was emphatically snubbed when he started to hold up the hotel's coffeeshop at pistolpoint last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Bad Form | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...little man entered the coffeeshop, crowded with delegates to the Pacific Logging Congress, and shouted, "This is a holdup!" No one, least of all the suave staff, paid any attention. Then the bandit kicked over a chair and shouted again: "Don't anyone move!" A few people turned to look in well-bred distaste, then went back to their eating. It was too much for the little man. Waving his pistol desperately in the air, he fired a single embarrassed shot into the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Bad Form | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Next