Search Details

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


Usage:

...just enough time for two cokes, two hot dogs, and a knish...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: New York Sheep in the Balcony "Sheep on the Runway," Helen Hayes Theatre, N. Y. C. | 2/13/1970 | See Source »

...Your item on Barbra Streisand in the Paris salons [Feb. 11] proves again that knish flambe never will be crepe suzette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 18, 1966 | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

...Majority of One. Rosalind Russell as a matron from Brooklyn and Alec Guinness as a Japanese millionaire keep straight faces long enough to stuff this soggily pleasant knish with sentiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 16, 1962 | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

Bummy, born Abraham Davidoff in the brick jungles of Brooklyn's Brownsville, made his first impact on the world as a boy knish-peddler. In a short time he had all but eliminated competition, not through business acumen but by belting the brains out of other little knish peddlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Tough Guy | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...Lolly Parsons' Hollywood Premières and the Hollywood end of the U.S. Treasury's Millions for Defense. Acidulous on all matters, particularly Hollywood, Vanda is enormously popular with reporters, is privily referred to by actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy." Few people agree with him. He has referred to himself as a "junior genius," claims that with a few relatives he'd be an important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Vanda's Show | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next