Search Details

Word: kisser (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted to run to her husband who had shot the whole sequence with his home cinema camera. "Hitler," enthused Mrs. de Vries, "was ever so nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Next Best Thing | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

History can repeat the story of the South African Kaffirs and if Haile Selassie expects his affairs to return status quo ante after the shooting dies down he is likely to receive a smart rap on the "kisser." Indeed it would appear that the Newshawk Negus had better send his "obit" to the linotyper for the coin of fate may be tails on both sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1936 | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...Munich, earlier in the week, aristocratic Chancellor von Papen, no baby-kisser, made himself solid by devouring publicly a huge plateful of the ancient city's long, white sausages and washing them down with frothing Münchner. He then launched into a fighting speech, shouted that other powers must at once grant to Germany the right of "armament equality" with themselves. Finally he drew thunderous Munich cheers by asking, ''How can our commerce nourish, if Germany does not enjoy the same respect abroad as other nations? Who will invest in a land which is constantly threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crass and Indefensible! | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

Bronston (to her): And you button up your kisser. What do you think this joint is?the Ritz? You highbrow dames that go slumming give me a pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 2, 1931 | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Diplomatic dickering about the kiss and other ceremonials has gone on between Vatican and Quirinal for a month. The view of Signor Mussolini (no toe-kisser) remains that King should merely shake hands with Pope, denoting that they meet as temporal sovereigns of two earthly realms (Italy and the new Papal State). But Crown Prince Umberto (looked to by non-Fascist Catholics as the only figurehead they could possibly set up against Il Duce) lets it be known unmistakably that he thinks his father's lips should touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Toe | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Previous | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | Next