Word: garters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dale is playing a faggot's faggot, but never fear: his manly chest and hairy legs are in full and virile view whether he is impersonating Marlene Dietrich in her black-garter outfit from The Blue Angel or banana-topped Carmen Miranda or dear, dear Noël Coward. Dale is the captain of a kinky service entertainment unit attached to beleaguered British troops who are in the process of losing Singapore...
...Monkey Man was known as a prosperous businessman who wore sporty clothes and walked about on two artificial legs. He liked to read the Wall Street Journal and talk of his travels to Israel, Greece and Spain. He owned an $80,000 building, containing a disco called the Red Garter, a home worth $30,000, and had $16,000 in cash, $46,000 in Washington checking accounts and $365,000 in a bond account with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith. Then why did he go on begging? Said his banker: "I think it was a lifelong habit...
...fellows is examined. In many cases, as May observed, the major departments make these appointments simply on the basis of their graduate students' financial needs. Reflecting on the University policy for hiring graduate students, May drily commented: "One is reminded of Melbourne's remark about the Order of the Garter--that there is no damned nonsense about merit...
...version ostensibly affirming Western-style press freedoms. Though U.S. delegates would have preferred no declaration, they found the weakened version acceptable. Observed Newsday President William Attwood, a U.S. media representative on the American delegation: "If there's a reptile in the house, far better to have it a garter snake than a rattlesnake." Third World delegates also praised the compromise that M'Bow, as one of their own, had put together, but they continued to call for a "new world information order" more favorable to developing nations than the existing...
Williams has spotted a few raccoons skulking in the shadows at night, and he has the usual population of gray squirrels that scamper between the lawn and Lafayette Park across Pennsylvania Avenue. How they survive the traffic is another of summer's miracles. Apparently the garter snakes have not. Williams used to find a few of the friendly fellows around the place, but no more...