Search Details

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


Usage:

...Peppermint striped and polka dotted fabrics are more popular this season than they have been in recent years. These patterns are often used as panelling to highlight an otherwise solid colored ensemble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Feminine Fashions Flower With 'Scoop' Necklines, Beachcoats, Straw Corsets, Other Odd Offerings | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

...switching Old 19th onto another track. The 20th starts up. Goes at full gallup toward Old 19th. Tension is high. Control man pushes button and 20th takes first right turn, missing Old 19th by inches. Crowd breathes sigh of relief. Gamins boo, suddenly spot me. I duck behind peppermint striped door. Shapely young thing almost dressed in red asks me sweetly if I want to see Santa Claus. Gamins cheer from doorway. Little girl cries. I smile weakly...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/15/1951 | See Source »

...cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little boy and stumpy, grumpy Grandma who smells of camphorated oil and dotes on "bulls' eyes" (a peppermint candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bulls' Eyes for Grandma | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Sometimes it tastes like lemon, sometimes like melon or hazelnut, and then like peppermint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: The Bells of St. Stephen's | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Know My Love (adapted from the French of Marcel Achard by S.N. Behrman; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson) may run for years with the Lunts in it; without them, it would hardly last a week. Not since the perfection of the chocolate-covered peppermint has anything so thin also been so gooey. But with that delightful absorption in themselves that renders them oblivious to their surroundings, the Lunts are as arch, as expert and as enjoyable here as elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Previous | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | Next