Search Details

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


Usage:

...puts them in motion. As they meander through Oxford together, their languid adventures seem more pathetic than comic-for the good reason that they belong to a world that disappeared just about the time Evelyn was writing its obituary. It is a little like seeing Buster Keaton hurl a custard pie into empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Also Current: Jul. 24, 1964 | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

...Shark-infested custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Games: Whats-Its | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

...argument that Martin and his colleagues unwisely tightened money before the last recession. Attacking the system's penchant for secrecy, such Democrats as Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire complain that trying to find out why and how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions is like "trying to paste a custard pie on a wall." To make the Federal Reserve more dependent upon the President and upon Congress' easy-money advocates, Patman is sponsoring bills that would: >End its authority to set itsown budget (currently: $180 million a year) and oblige it to come to Congress for an annual appropriation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: Fight over the Federal Reserve | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue. It is as beautiful in Eastman Color as England is in spring. And it is one of the funniest farces anybody anywhere has splattered on a screen since Hollywood lost the recipe for custard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: John Bull in His Barnyard | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

...Gaitskell's capers a fertile source of copy. "I prefer beer to champagne and tinned salmon to smoked," insists Wilson. "I am on the side of plain living and high thinking." Actually, Wilson likes steak and wine as well as the next man, but he tucks into packaged custard, stewed rhubarb and canned meat with schoolboyish gusto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Road to Jerusalem | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Previous | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | Next