Search Details

Word: davises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

It was reported this week that Clifford acted as a straw in a real estate purchase for a rust that included George S. Davis, who was convicted last year of insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit arson.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Insurance Commissioner Clifford Quits, Claims Media Coverage Unreasonable, Unfair | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

Davis said in testimony before the Boston Rent Control Board in 1977 that Clifford's purchases of condominiums in a Boston apartment building were arranged in order to refinance the building.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State Insurance Commissioner Clifford Quits, Claims Media Coverage Unreasonable, Unfair | 2/17/1979 | See Source »

Very, very slowly, the story unfolds. Young Christin (played by Ilah Davis in an unfortunate debut) vanishes into scummy California. Her distraught father flies down, and, unsatisfied by police efforts to find her, hires a sleezy private dick played by Peter Boyle. Back in Grand Rapids Scott wanders around looking...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: The Harder They Come | 2/15/1979 | See Source »

They were not alone. Alarmed by what the State Department called the "uncertain security situation," and fearing a tide of anti-American sentiment, Ambassador William Sullivan asked Americans whose presence was not essential to leave. Despite many Iranians' personal reassurances to foreigners of their friendship, there were two ugly incidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Khomeini Era Begins | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

The evening is an amiable mixture of songs, dances and wisecracks seasoned with the rueful wisdom of age. Maxine Sullivan, whom one must not refrain from calling ageless, stops the clock and the show with a briskly resilient number called A Little Starch Left. An October-October romance between a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Geriantics | 2/5/1979 | 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