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Word: daintiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weekly fascination begins when one of the daintiest (5 ft. 3½ in., 87 Ibs.) of fairies, 14-year-old Brigid Mary Bazlen, floats into view on elfin wings. Waiting for her. seated on imitation mushrooms in the Blue Forest, are half a dozen moppets. Brigid sings her charges a song, offers a quiet moral (letter writing is a good thing), and manages to keep her wings on even when things go a little wrong, as they did when one recent guest announced plainly: "I hate you. Blue Fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Little Girl Blue | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Miller has a lovely pair of legs and tries hard to live up to them. Keenan Wynn and James Whitmore, as the collection agents for a prominent gambler, should bring down the house as two of the daintiest thugs who ever did a sentimental buck and wing at the annual picnic of Murder, Inc. The rest of the dances, however, seem overrehearsed-as though the dancers had long since stopped enjoying them. Only the music, some of the very best that Cole Porter ever wrote, is unimpaired; the picture is almost worth seeing just to hear it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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