Word: overnighters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mascara, eyebrow pencil, eye liner and eye shadow, has been around for a while. But until recently, only show girls admitted to wearing false eyelashes, and they, poor things, are a notoriously shameless lot. Now, astonishingly, false eyelashes have been declared chic. And not only chic, but essential. Overnight, beauty salons have engaged eyelash "falseticians" who, for an average price of $5, will measure and trim the customer's falsies as well as instruct her on how to apply and remove them...
First, he spent $4,100,000 on a new wood drying facility, and his sawmill overnight became one of the most up-to-date of its kind. By using assembly-line techniques and various hurry-up tricks that would have shocked old-style instrumentmakers, Kawakami lowered the time needed to produce a piano from two years to three months. He does not feel that this produces the world's best piano, but with a shrewd eye for publicity he can point to the fact that his pianos are already used by Composer (Guys & Dolls) Frank Loesser, Fred Astaire...
Alan Sillitoe, whose first short novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, made him famous overnight at 30, is now in a fair way to becoming the laureate of the losers-the spivs, tea-leaves and no-hopers who never quite made it into Britain's working class...
...proposal would let sophomores merely estimate their sign out, to as late as they want or overnight. It was defeated by the RGA legislature on Dec. 12 by a 24 to 20 vote...
After being held overnight in Slubice, Field's wife was permitted to continue her journey, but Field himself was placed on an eastbound train and subsequently interrogated and imprisoned...