Search Details

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


Usage:

...effect, the layered look has simply extended downward. Legs are being gussied up-particularly to the advantage of the unbeautiful ones-with thigh-high socks and knee-high socks, cuffers (a.k.a. anklets) and the leg warmers that dancers have worn for years. One or two or all of these furbelows may be worn at the same time, and they can be used to make endless variations on a theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Layered Look for Legs | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...generation but the greatest of all time. His opponents, crediting the myth, approached the ring as though it were an abattoir. Chicago's pugilistic chopping block, King Levinsky, lasted 141 seconds. Tough old Paulino Uzcudun did better. No one had ever knocked out Paulino, in 36 years. Fisti-cuffer Louis did it in four rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Schmeling v. Louis | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

James Joseph Tunney, retired fisti-cuffer, last week in Portsmouth, England, presented a silver cup to the Royal Marines as a token of goodwill from the U. S. Marines. But, earlier in the week, he had brewed illwill among newsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 1928 | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, world's champion heavyweight fisti-cuffer, addressed an American Legion convention in Troy, N. Y. Said he: "Radicalism must be suppressed! And the Legion can help in suppressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Miscellaneous Mentions: Aug. 15, 1927 | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

| 1 |