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Word: feets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There once was a woman with unsightly feet. People whispered about her as she passed: "Look at that gal with those big, ugly feet." To distract attention from her unfortunate condition, the woman dyed her hair an eye-catching green. Thenceforth, she was gay, carefree. Everybody noticed her green hair. They whispered about her, as she passed: "Look at that gal with the green hair. And get a load of those feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Tinted Women | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

Many a husband returning home from work at dinnertime last week was startled to find a different-looking woman in the house. To some this brought a sudden, tingling exhilaration, but a second look (perhaps at the feet) established that the wife was the same, only the hair different. It glinted with a new hue. The husband had been dragged into the host of U.S. men whose wives have become touched with tint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Tinted Women | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...that caters to subway society with a churnful of cheesecake, a flutter of racing tips and leering feature stories (LANA TURNER: A GIRL NEEDS MORE THAN A BOSOM), Miller writes what is probably the yeastiest scandal column printed anywhere. Besides his own bylined sinerama each week, thick-set ("six feet when I stand up straight") John Miller also grinds out five other Enquirer features: a tearjerker called "Millerdramas," a trade-talky TV column bylined John Jay, "Inside Politics" by James Miljae, "Hollywood Keyhole" by Gene Carter, and a second titter-tattle column over the byline of John Rellim (a rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Keyhole Kid | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...Connecticut General plant, with its module of six feet carried throughout, its sweeping 470-ft. glass façade, cantilevered restaurant, airy, uncolumned work space, four tranquil yet exciting interior courts by Japanese Sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and separate executive block, is Bunshaft's bold merger of his principles with the company's needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: BUILDING WITH A FUTURE | 9/16/1957 | See Source »

...equally well as an observation post. But he still feels that the bombing had to be done, if only because "in the cold desolation of winter and the fatiguing travail of unresolved battle, the spell of its monstrous eminence was complete and haunting . . . To the soldiers dying at its feet, the Monastery had itself become in a sense the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: At the Monastery | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

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