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Word: gartered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Need spiritual help in stealing a woman's garter? Try a prayerful summons to the angel Baltazard, who, according to the Jewish cabala, has a special gift for such pranks. In case he fails, other spirits might help-perhaps Vassago, an angel with unique ability to ferret out a lady's secrets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: A Who's Who of Heaven & Hell | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...several conclusions about them as a group. Most are male, and their principal language is Hebrew-one reason, perhaps, why 11,000 angels are alleged to guard every Jew. Davidson, of course, also knows whom to send to the aid of any woman who happens to have her garter stolen-Nergal, chief of hell's secret police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: A Who's Who of Heaven & Hell | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...cheerfully scratchy, crazy-quilt compositions of bicycle handlebars, Coke bottles and girls in garter belts owe a good deal to Klee and Dubuffet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: Crazy-Quilt Composer | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

High-stepping Joel Grey led a line of go-go garter girls in a production number from Cabaret which, by TV standards, deserved the top Nielsen rating for naughtiness. Barbara Harris, star of The Apple Tree, sparkled as the scullery maid-turned-balloon-breasted vamp. Co-Hosts Mary Martin and Robert Preston harmonized about marital disharmony in a scene from I Do! I Do!; pint-sized Norman Wisdom sang the razzmatazz title song from Walking Happy. It was Broadway at its belt-'em-out best, a show with pace, style, wit, suspense, and the kind of well-practiced polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards: Tony Comes of Age | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...banking and money do not really mean that much to Francis. Raised in a Manhattan orphanage with nary a clue to the identity of his parents, he has developed a delusion that he is the unacknowledged child of a British peer, entitled to the Order of the Garter, or perhaps even the illegitimate son of Kaiser Wilhelm and Queen Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snob's Folly | 10/7/1966 | See Source »

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